Re: Local Gas Prices
Shel wrote: That's a very short-sighted point of view. Higher fuel prices effect just about every aspect of your life, from the cost of basic foods to home services. Most everything is transported somehow, and the cost of fuel is a major factor in the rising cost of goods, as manufacturers and distributors raise their prices to accommodate the higher fuel costs and try to maintain their profit. Shel [Original Message] From: David Mann NZ$1.70 a litre for 91. It seems to go up on a weekly basis now, but being predominantly pedal-powered I find it difficult to care. The short-sighted point of view is _burning_ fossil resources. m
Re: Local Gas Prices
If you want to get _really_ worried • New high-octane BP fuel costs £2.42 a litre • Could boost performance by up to 7.5% • £140 to fill up with £11-a-gallon fuel If the prospect of paying £1-a-litre for your fuel has you worried, how about £2.42 instead? That's how much BP is charging for its new Ultimate 102 high-octane fuel which typically boosts power output by between 4.0 and 7.5% on performance cars. Tests with the £11-a-gallon fuel on a tuned Porsche showed an increase in maximum engine power of 37bhp (up 8.6%), however, and a peak jump of 60bhp (up 16%) at some points in the rev range. Just six forecourts around the UK are selling the fuel which has been launched with unfortunate timing as soaring crude oil values have focussed motorists' minds on pump prices. It would cost you more than £140 to fill up a family car like Ford Mondeo with the new fuel. The enormous pricetag is down to the fact that that Ultimate 102 is 'hand made' at BP's Speciality Fuels Technology Centre in the UK in very small batches. It's manufactured with the same know-how that produces fuels for Formula 1 race cars. An octane rating of 102 ron is up to 7 ron higher than standard fuel. If you fancy emptying your pockets and filling up with Ultimate 102 you can find it at the following fuel stations: Tudor filling station, A20, Allington Chicheley Park, Tickford Street, Newport Pagnell Wavendon Gate, Newport Road, Wavendon All Saints, Commercial Road, Portsmouth Newbury Centre, 758 Eastern Avenue, Ilford Newham Way service station, Newham Way, Canning town BP has chosen those well..
How to photograph animals in the dark?
Hi, Here's a conundrum. I've been doing bat surveys for the last few weeks, as it is that time of year. Mostly it is quite easy turn up at dusk or dawn (or both, which is quite hard) wander round with a bat detector and note anything flying. If it's a big roost you can often spot it quickly, if it's smaller more visits will be needed to pin it down. But.. It turns out that there is a commmon specie of bat around here that is comparitively solitary and does not register well on a bat detector. My thought is that the easiest way to spot these would be by photography. They tend to use barns and these often have largeish openings that the bat is most likely to use. The two thoughts I have had are: 1) use a video camera on a tripod and film the opening. That means someone will have to sit and watch the ~2 hours of video. 2) use trap focus to catch individuals. The two problems I can see with 2) are that it would be hard to get the bat to fly through the focus point as the opening will be large and keeping everything functional over two or so hours. I did wonder about beam-breaking apparatus for triggering the shutter but I think the large opening will be a problem again. For both, it will be dark(ish) and probably some form of light enhancement (i.e. night vision scope - flash is not desireable) will be needed. Anyone done this sort of thing before? Anyone got any ideas? mike knackered p.s. apologies to those I owe a personal reply to. I have been at home only to sleep for the past two weeks and have not been keeping up. But tonight I have a session off so I should catch up.
Physics prac
Hi, I can't find the blocks of wood with two crocodile clips screwed to them. Did they migrate to Bede? mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Re: tap tap tap
From: Kevin Waterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] is this thing on? funny story A friend of mine was in the Air Force in the late 1950's, stationed in Egypt. There was going to be a large, combined services parade of 15,000 men and the powers were wondering how to command them. It was suggested that a slow flying plane like an Auster could be rigged up with a public address system and flown over the ground. It would be equidistant from most people so they would hear the commands at the same time. Thus it was. The parade was started and the men gathered on the ground in their units. The plane did a few slow flyovers and then the people on the ground heard this: Click. Let's try it. Mary had a little pig and it was always gruntin'. She took it down the garden path and kicked [expletive phrase deleted] Is that thing switched on? Oh, my God! Click My friend says he's never seen 15,000 people crying with laughter since. /funny story mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
OT: I can see Shel's/Marnie's/John's etc houses from here!
Hi, Way OT but some interesting pictures from the latest incarnation of the U2. Nearly 70,000ft up... The spellchecker bloopers are amusing. http://homepage.mac.com/ecorb/PhotoAlbum3.html mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
I thought Pentax lenses were supposed to be getting expensive?
Slightly dusty and not the most desirable version but still http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=3872782500 mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
OT Missing messages
Interesting. I was using webmail to access my ntl (ptui!) account from work, so as to avoid including the College sig. When I do that, it takes eons for my post to come back to me. Using a proper mail programme, it is much quicker. Could this be a reason for the problem? mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Re: Re: OT Missing messages
From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/02/15 Tue PM 12:38:28 GMT To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: OT Missing messages - Original Message - From: mike.wilson Subject: OT Missing messages Interesting. I was using webmail to access my ntl (ptui!) account from work, so as to avoid including the College sig. When I do that, it takes eons for my post to come back to me. Using a proper mail programme, it is much quicker. Could this be a reason for the problem? Weren't you having problems with the PUG a while back? I recall someone was having problems getting all the images when I was looking after things. Indeed. But that was two machines and three versions of browser software ago. I'm assuming that the present problem, which I've only just experienced, is due to some filtering of email that might have something to do with (for example) HTML code getting embedded in webmail. (Nearly just replied to you with webmail. Sorry about the sig.) mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Bargain
Hi, Any of us get this? Misdescribed but still http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=3870354596 mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Re: Re: PP: Digital Grain
Hi, From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's correct, Rob has it just about right. A quality digital camera used correctly does a clean job of recording a photograph without creating defects in the rendering. How the photograph is textured/rendered is up to the judgement of the photographer. Sorry, Godfey, but that paragraph is the biggest load of bollocks. _Nothing_ records a photograph without defects. However correctly it is used. Digital captures are more likely to have gross defects (hot pixel, anyone?) than film. mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Sensor damage
Hi, For those interested, the Voksenlia site is showing a superb example of the sensor damage done by sun tracks at the moment. If you miss it, I have saved the file (230Kb Jpeg) and can send it to those who want. http://voksenlia.net/ mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Interesting Ebay result
Hi, So someone got this for £295 - except they are not a registered user. How does that work? (If you can hear the question over the sound of me kicking my own backside) http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=3854459277 mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Re: Photoshop CS Bargain Basement
Willaim Robb wrote: I don't understand why you are trying to make a connection between music CDs and software. Other than that they are both on little plastic discs, they don't really have much in common. I helped develop a music CD a couple of years ago. It was a buddy of mine recording a buddy of his' music. The development cost was a couple of cases of beer, plus materials. We did pretty good too. Which is a pretty good analogy for free/shareware. The medium has little to do with it. It's the investment of time and skill/expertise that I'm drawing the analogy with. Whether the product arrives on vinyl, tape, diskette, CD or is downloaded is immaterial. (Groan) Anyway, if my friend the Photoshop instructo is correct in his assertion that Adobe has sold about 1 in every 10 copies that are in use, (an I see no reason to doubt him), I don't see how you can argue that pirating isn't causing a problem. If they could sell half of what is in use, the price would most likely be significantly lower per unit. I have never argued that piracy is not causing a problem. My argument is that the retail price is too high, causing piracy. The forward thinking thing to do would be to lower the price (everywhere) and provide support in the ex-pirate markets. As it stands, the high-price market profits are supporting the ex-piracy markets. Your version is, in part, supporting some guy in Siberia. FWIW I do not agree with wholesale theft of intellectual property. If, however, the owner of that property gives up at least part of their right I will happily take advantage of that. The answer? Next version of PS that comes out, don't buy it. Or take a trip to Omsk (bit of a busman's holiday for you - let's say a Black Sea resort) and get it there. You'll pay about the same price in total and have a holiday thrown in. Speaking generally, I suspect that witholding of purchase will not happen as the great buying public seems to have turned into some masochistic version of Oliver Twist. Is there a difference in prices of PS between the USA and Canada? If so, what would be the legal/moral issues in buying a copy in the cheaper place to use in the dearer? mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Re: Photoshop CS Bargain Basement
Hi, From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: mike wilson Subject: Re: Photoshop CS Bargain Basement No I'm not. My argument was based on an orchestra, that has years of training and months of development costs for a performace. The higher pay is a function of the higher retail price which is a function of the amount customers are willing to pay. Or believe they need to. A lot of orchestra musicians have a day job, and are amateur musicians. A lot of orchestras are getting arts grants, offsetting the cost of operation. Most orchestras put on the occasional concert, for which they are paid. Most orchestras (like all musicians) get a royalty for every time they sell a CD, or even get played on the radio. All of which goes towards subsidising the cost of recorded music somewhat but does not cover the fact that the public would not pay an order of magnitude more for a copy of a music performance. Especially one that might or might not play, might sound different every time you used it and occasionally caused your playing mechanism to go into stasis. I really don't understand why it is OK for a software publisher to make profits of hundreds of millions and it is equally OK for an orchestra to teeter on the edge of insolvency in perpetuity. Most software writers (at the Photoshop level) are professional writers. It's all they do for a living. And they produce a computer programme for playing with pictures. It does it quite well but it's hardly obligatory for the continuation of life. Rather like music. Very few, if any, software companies are getting government grants. Many of them get government contracts, essentially the same thing. Software companies do trade shows and the like, at which they may sell some product, but otherwise don't get paid for. But the costs are set against tax. Once a piece of software is sold, that's pretty much it, except for those that collect ongoing licensing fees. I don't suppose there are all that many of those. I would think that PS(i.e. Adobe) and most of the other major software developers make _most_ of their income from licencing. If you are a big institution, you will not be allowed by many of them to _buy_ your software. Your arguments don't hold up, I am afraid. I'm afraid they do. I'm also afraid that this is probably boring the pants (or panties) off most people. And inciting others to unspeakable things with wax effigies. Enough said. m CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Re: Photoshop CS Bargain Basement
Just one final comment, meant to lighten things up a bit. If copying software is theft, what is this? http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=848531 CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
OT: Computer help
Hi, I know some people are using WinME. Here is an excellent page of simply written, comprehensive information on maintaining the OS in as best condition as you can. http://users.adelphia.net/~jgulley/me/index.html mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Re: PAW PESO - Spare some sex?
Hi, Cotty wrote: On 18/10/04, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: I don't mean this to sound like our poverty is worse than yours, or Monty Python's Three Yorkshiremen sketch, but everyone is entitled to their view on these things, and I think your comments to V. were a bit below the belt. I used to dream of having a belt I used to dream about having a bit. mike got it now 8-) CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Pentax £100,000 giveaway. Not SPAM....
Hi, Pentax appears to be collecting data on purchasers with a hook of entering you for the cash prize draw. Can anyone spot in the page a question that asks you precisiely what you bought? You are given five generic options on the previous page. This seems to alter only questions 7 9. http://comserv.prodregister.com/pentax/tfe01.shtml If not, what use is it for the purpose stated? Your valuable input regarding this purchase helps us create the products you'll want in the future. Baffled in the UK. CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Re: Z-1p with multicoated eyepiece at last...
Hi, Alan wrote: Am I crazy or not? g Not. No grin. Now, will you do mine? guesswhetherI'mgrinningornot mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Re: OT - 1Dsmll 16MP?
Hi, Mark and Rob wrote: half-hour time zones Wow. Another reason for wholesale removal of politicians. Interesting that Pentax chose to include this specification but not certain others. mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Customer relations (Was Re: National symbols)
Hi, Tom C wrote: I was in Starbucks today. I was late for work. I was grouchy and in a hurry. There were four brewers for regular drip coffee, all empty. The young girl turned around and said, I'm sorry we're out, would you mind waiting 2 minutes? I replied I thought I came to a coffee place. The other barista said, Yes sir, you did with a sweet smile plastered on her face and a pleasant tone of voice. I said Well I don't have 2 minutes to wait, I'll go elsewhere. They said they were sorry and wished me a nice day. Standard procedure these days is to have some pretty, young female as Customer relations consultant so that when you (the usually male complainer) go in breathing fire the prettiness, caring voice and concerned manner put you off. I either carry on regardless or, if I'm feeling really mean, say Actually, my wife is the person who needs to speak to you. I get as much pleasure watching their expressions change as their hair streams out behind in the blast, as I do in the recompense. We got a total refund on our last service from the local 5star Ford dealer. Manners have no place in complaints to large corporations. mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Re: PESO: Pineapple field
Hi, Ryan wrote: One of a series of randomly abstract shots I took, intended to be part of a book a final year fashion student at uni is getting published by year end.. http://home.iprimus.com.au/heygoose/pineapple1s.jpg (shot on good ol Reala) Hedgehog orgy! Or Spencer Tunnick shoots hedgehogs. I like abstracts that suggest something. mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
re: OT - Hitch Hikers Guide again
Hi, Cotty wrote: the actual listen again of the episode broadcast on Monday is currently unavailable, possibly due to high demand. I suspect they are putting it on its own server or something or making it a really nice hot cup of tea. Available after the Thursday repeat, I understand. m CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
PESO suggestion
Hi, I'm probably in a minority of one here but I used to really like the Synchronicty PUG. As it is the autumnal equinox today, how about those interested posting a picture taken in the next 12 (or so) hours? mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Outwierding contest
Hi, Cotty wrote: I would thank you but I'm spending a year dead, mainly for tax reasons. I'm doing that but only from the neck up. Sending the rest into exile in the Bahamas. m CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Re: PAW: Out to Pasture
Hi, Paul wrote: Nice shot. It's the classic abandoned classic. It appears to be quite restorable. Is it an early sixties Jag S-Type? I think a MkII. http://www.motorbase.com/vehicle/by-id/931/ Having stood in that damp environment for a few years, everything below the waistline will have rotted and it probably went for spares or an _extremely_ expensive restoration. mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Re: PESO - Monastery
Hi, Cotty wrote: On 22/9/04, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: As a Buddhist who was born in Hemel Hempstead, I approve! :) Great Scott. I must bring my wife to GFM next time, you'll get on just fine. She has an honours degree in Comparative Religion and has Buddhist persuadings Doesn't believe in allowing others to find their own destiny, then? I'll just get my coat.. m CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
re PESO: Santa's helpers
Hi, Valentin wrote: Fooling around with photoshop: Was that the watercolour filter? I've never been able to get that to produce anything useful before. I tried to do something for this month's PUG with an excellent slide of a post-war Riley gliding through the English countryside but the Craposcan buggered it up. Even trying to rescue it with the watercolour filters in PS was no good. Not helped by my colour management being cockeyed at present. What settings did you use? mike p.s. I believe in reindeers, just don't know where they come from 8-) CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Canon users buy up stocks of high-end Pentax lenses (Was: Re: Come to papa........)
Hi, Cotty wrote: On 9/9/04, Dario Bonazza, discombobulated, unleashed: to fit Ricoh. To fit Canon. Mutley Hmmm. Assuming SRB use CNC type machinery, the setup cost for an EOS/K adaptor would be the greater proportion of the price. In other words, the first one is expensive, after that, they cost slightly over the cost of the material. Just how many of those adaptors did you get made? Worried of Sunderland CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Removing front ring (Was Re: M 50 f1.4 loose barrel)
Hi, Henri wrote: Getting the ring off is the tough part, I pretty much destroyed mine when I did it. Get hold of a rubber bung that is wide enough to place on the front of the lens and touch the ring all round the front element, just narrower than the filter threads. Homebrewing supply shop would be a good source. 8-) Cut a couple of circles of lens tissue and put them on the front element. Press the bung down onto the ring and turn it, just like you were trying to get the lid off a glass jar. The only rings that won't come off like this, in my experience, are the ones in damaged filter threads. You will need to repair the threads first. Reverse the procedure to reinstall. You need the lens tissue to protect the front element. Even if the rubber does not have some form of grit incorporated, it may have picked up something nasty before you get hold of it. Two layers will normally be enough but more will not be overkill. To alleviate the grit problem entirely, you could try to get hold of some thickwalled rubber tubing of an appropriate diameter. I use rubber spheres, sliced at various points to give me a selection of ring faces, because I have a ready supply of them. mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Re: Fotolabo film
Hi, Jostein wrote: Like you said, I have also considered them to be too cheap to be good. If you try them out, could you post a comment on how things went? One of the possible problems with cheap (especially but not only) labs is consistency. Toralf may have an excellent experience - the lab may then destroy your films. This can also happen with Pro labs, as I know only too well. Toralf needs to send in a statistically significant number of films for us to get a good idea of how the lab performs. 8-) mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Re: PUG, Dag and multiple exposure
Hi, Jostein wrote: The *istD does have multi-exposure mode, though. Having tried it only once, my understanding is that it doesn't work the same way as it does in eg. Z-1. The Z-1 compensates the shutter speed of each part-exposure according to how many you plan to take. The *istD doesn't. When doing a 4-part exposure of the same motif, I ended up with a grossly overexposed picture. Unfortunately I don't recall the settings on the camera. I posted a link to an example some time ago, of a wind turbine multiply exposed. Here it is again. http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/channel/1/extra/new/display/985378 mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Re: A problem you will never have with digital
Hi, TomR wrote: However, this is, I think, the stupidest thing I have ever done in a darkroom. When I was at school, two of us used a strobe in the school darkroom to shoot pucks as they collided on a sheet of plate glass. The pucks were painted white on top, so the long exposures under the strobe gave a series of dots, showing the tracks of the pucks before and after the collision. To make the pucks glide over the plate glass, they were hollow underneath. In the hollow you put a lump of dry ice (solid carbon diodide) that turned to gas and made the puck float. Despite having a ventilation fan running, the teacher found us asleep about 45 minutes later. Luckily. mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Re: Me and my 250-600 (now nothing to do with filing cabinets)
Hi, Jostein wrote: John Francis wrote: There are two shots there not taken with a Pentax camera, but with a Nikon point-and-shoot (35mm, not digital). One, obviously, is the shot of me holding my camera. Would anyone care to guess which the other one is? This giraffe look somewhat familiar...:-) http://www.panix.com/~johnf/gallery/images/sdwap414.jpg That was my first thought also, not only because of the subject but because it has quite high DOF. But, looking at the original, 414 does not have as much DOF so I am not sure. There is nothing else that seems to have the same characteristics as 615. Only 115 comes close and there is very little background further away than a few yards to make a judgement. I must be a Neanderthal. mike reading this on the archives, so I don't know the answer yet. CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Re: List problems
Hi, PJA wrote: Sometimes my e-mail client hiccups, especially when there are a large number of e-mails on the server. When it does that the server never receives acknowledgment that the e-mails were received. If that happens I'm guaranteed to receive duplicates. I usually know when that's going to happen. Wonder if the problems could be due to ISP antispam software? mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Re: Art or Entomology?
Hi, Shel wrote: I recently had a discussion with a couple of photographers, the subject of which was how Photoshop relates to Photography. Is an image that has been extensively adjusted in Photoshop still a photograph, or has it somehow morphed into something else? Is there a line somewhere that, when crossed, moves the image out of the category of Photograph into something else? And what is that something else? David Hockney thinks so. His recent comment was something along the lines of heavily digitally manipulated images are just badly drawn photographs mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
Re: PAW Art or entomology? Oh no, philosophy!
Hi, David wrote: The way I see my photography is that I'm recording beauty. Of course, there's the issue that beauty is subjective. To me, a fly's compound eye, or a hairy caterpillar sitting on a stem, is beautiful, as well as interesting - and when I photograph such a thing I try and capture this beauty and the life as best I can. The result hopefully shows some of these things that make me love my subjects (and if I was really good, I might even be able to bring that love itself into my photographs). I understand your explanation of the matter and am just confused, as your points seemed valid, but yet I resisted. Is something beautiful less valuable than something that, while it may or may not be pleasing, has a message or depth, as you request? There is not neccessarily dichotomy between your views and Shel's. If the purpose of your photograph is (even only in part) to show the beauty of something that is often treated with disgust and revulsion, then you have created a photograph with a message. It's art, David, but not that you knew it 8-))) mike a real snapshooter CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
OT: Triumphs (Was OT: Mazdas vs cameras)
Hi, John Francis wrote: Oh, you can go pretty fast in one. A college friend of mine found that out the hard way; he came round a bend on a country lane to find a group of hikers spread out all across the road. He managed to avoid them all, but was less fortunate in avoiding the tree branch hanging over the bank. It came straight through the windscreen, and straight through his chest. We even managed to get three people in that car on one occasion, but that really only works if the two people in the passenger seat know each other _very_ well (they certainly will by the end of the journey :-). The Vitesse does pretty well with that 120HP, too - not surprising in a car that weights about 1800lbs dry. I've had one up to around 120mph. Despite the lowish power output, the GT6 was a nice little car. Light, and close to the ground, so it seemed you were going fast, even if you weren't! And then.. You can bump it up to 2.5litres by just putting the the crank and pistons from the 2.5PI. The Vitesse with that in will go a tad faster but gets there noticeably quicker. Doesn't use much more fuel, either. Last I heard, there were plans afoot to swap the PI head and electrics. A 130mph convertible with no cage, unventilated discs on the front, 8 drums on the back, a body held on by six bolts and distictly er, _different_ suspension. Doesn't bear thinking about. mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
OT: Triumphs (Was OT: Mazdas vs cameras)
Hi, John Francis wrote: Mine was the ragtop, too. The aerodynamics of that car conspire to make the front end *extremely* light over 100mph. I think the car would have gone faster than 120, but I chickened out; I was steering with just the lightest touch of my fingertips, and still felt as if I were aquaplaning. I found that it was very sensitive to the placing of the bonnet. Setting it up so that the bonnet _looked_ right made it behave like that. Refitting it so that it acted as more of a downforce wing (although it looked _hideous_) reduced the symptoms. Nowadays, I would have put an airdam on the front. This transformed my father's Marina (ptoo!) estate from a truly hazardous vehicle to a leech. Worked on a Proton, too. mike CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE DISCLAIMER Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If they come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Please note that the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure thay are actually virus free.
OT: Ebay practices, WAS RE: Pentax 28-80/2,8?
Hi, Mark wrote: Maybe it's just me, but I do not like it when sellers describe an item as a Pentax lens in the auction title and then described the item as for Pentax, made by in the auction body. There is one retailer that regularly describes a lens as Pentax bayonet sometimes with fit afterwards and sometimes not. Even worse, and what leads me to suspect that they are deliberately trying to deceive, is that all the pictures carefully do not show the name of the manufacturer. mike
Re: XP-2
Hi, Clint wrote: I did the scans myself I just purchased a film scanner. I dont know how that could be possible for just one to be scanned backwards, BUT I am new to scanning. If you look at the two of the scales, the close up is the right way round (you can read the writing) but the background of the wider shot is reversed. The wide shot is scanned back to front or the close up is and was then flipped. Or the wide shot was flipped after scanning the right way round. You will have to go back to the original scans to see. If one of them is on a different strip to the other and has been scanned back to front, probably all of the strip has been. Back to front scanning can affect sharpness. voice of experience It's easy to do in the excitement of a new process. /voice of experience mike
Photographer a week - Homo ludens
Hi, Not quite one a week so far but here is a photographic journey. Well worth reading to the end. There is a series of galleries from the /photo/ directory. http://www.qsl.net/xq2fod/photo/equip/equip.html If you understand what Homo ludens means, it's worth going to his home page and looking through his stuff on model aeroplanes. There is one _very_ funny story in there mike
Re: XP-2
Hi, Clint wrote: Shel the reason I might not continue to use XP-2 is the contrast does not look right. I dont know if the kodak brand film would be better, alot of the blame might be on me for not using filters. Just a thought the whole folder is located here: Who did your scans, Clint? At least one of them is back to front. Despite its processing drawbacks, I rather like XP-2 for its smoothness of tone. Makes me think of some older large format pictures - I had a small discussion about this phenomenon with Tom a while back. Because of this quality, I'm not sure it is a suitable film for the documentation you are creating, which is a thoroughly worthwhile exercise. Might be worth trying a film with higher acutance (~edge sharpness) to see if the output is more acceptable to you. Of course, once you get into traditional BW, you will have to either do your own processing or spend some time finding a body who will process the way you want. mike
Asterisks (WAS Re: PAW - My Grandaughter)
Hi, Shel wrote: Well, Larry, as long as there's a Pentax somewhere in your life, the rules keeper must consider that, and that, had you had the Pentax with you, you'd have used it instead of the asterisk brand. That said, lemme look at the pic ... Is it not bizzare that the only brand to have an asterisk in its lineup is Pentax? mike giggler
Re: Photographer a Week (Forsyth)
Hi, Abano wrote: I din't knew him. Gorgeous work, I like the style. It reminds me a bit to Doisneau. He's not at all famous and probably never will be. But what he's done, for me, eclipses the works of greater photographers. He lived in the community, the community funded his photography by buying his pictures and he has documented in great detail a tiny part of British culture that has now disappeared. I suspect that there are many others who have done this but only a few, like Frank Sutcliffe as well as Doisneau, gain any recognition and that is often by accident. Much of the work done by these people ends up lost, destroyed or dispersed. I also suspect that applying the word style to his work would amuse him. He was never anything but extremely poor (during his active photographic life) and his work looks the way it does due to his use of whatever was available at the time. Paradoxically, he is probably now (still alive, last I heard) richer than he has ever been, although I think he has had to give up working due to failing eyesight. mike
Digitial cameras - must have feature set
Hi, Edwin wrote: snip although I was surprised to discover that the D100 does not have the turn this way to focus arrows as well snip ROTFLMAOUIP I'm still not going to buy one until they have perfect composition achieved and shoot now voiceovers. 8-))) mike
Re: Older non Pentax flash on *istD
Hi, Christian wrote: I used to use the AF360FGZ on the LX, MX and SuperProgram It worked in Manual or Automatic on the MX and TTL Manual or Automatic on the LX and SP. Originally I was a bit worried about damage, but it never happened. It wasn't explicit but I was referring to TTL operation. Operations that do not require control input from outside the flash (other than fire now) will not be affected. I am unfamiliar with the AF360FGZ but I am still suprised that it will work on TTL mode on anything other than a digitally controlled body. Did you mean to write TTL Manual or did you mean TTL, Manual? If the first, what is TTL Manual? In either case, how did you get TTL on an SP? And still, I do not understand how a flash with a trigger voltage in single figures will damage a camera designed to cope with one in the high hundreds. mike
RE: * ist Digital Question
Hi, Cesar wrote: Can I find a larger fanny pack? How big is your fanny likely to grow? m
Re: The problem with digital
Hi, WR wrote: And I got, I am sure, a good picture that I wouldn't have gotten on film, perhaps even more than one. How so? Speed/sensitivity change? mike
Frank's nuts - WAS:RE: Cameras in the Snow-was: Digital good
Hi, Cotty wrote: On 20/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Frank, your nutts! What about them? After years of battering by Canadian highway imperfections, his natural shape is like the shorts of that guy going down the steps? Sorry, Frank, I couldn't resistbut what a subject line! mike
Re: Mr. Charles - A small remembrance
Hi, Shel wrote: http://home.earthlink.net/~digisnaps/mrcharles.html Well, it's certainly brightened a grey day in NE England. We could do with a few Mr Charles' here mike
Re: Freezing BW film
Hi, DagT wrote: There is, however, a story of a Norwegian expedition to Antarctica where they used an LX being modified to roll the film the opposite way around the spool in the camera to avoid cracking, but the temperatures may be well below the temperature in the freezer. Tell me more, tell me more m
Re: It's Stopped Raining
Hi, Kostas wrote: Sorry, I missed the original post (and think it may not have been Dag T who wrote about the MZ-S): On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Lon Williamson wrote: Dag T wrote: I was very impressed with the MZ-S in this respect. Coming out of well below 20degrees under zero into a warm and moist cafe, it produced enough condensation to soak about 30 paper napkins. I just kept mopping it off until it had warmed up sufficiently to cease creating. Which bits does one mop (and therefore check for condensation)? It was me. I put the lens cap on before going inside. All surfaces were beaded with moisture immediately and I spent about 20 minutes mopping it off. I concentrated on the areas of joints, where the moisture might penetrate the lens or body. The intervals between moppings got longer and longer, until it was not necessary any more. mike
Re: twited pig
On 7/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Twisted pig. Typing is NOT my first language. William Robb Time to start another brotherhood. Anyone esle? Esle? Cnotu em ni. m'I sa witted as nyaone. oYu have to eb chfie ewitt, thghou. )8- ekmi
Condensation Was:Re: It's Stopped Raining
Hi, Kostas wrote: Sorry, I missed the original post (and think it may not have been Dag T who wrote about the MZ-S): On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Lon Williamson wrote: Dag T wrote: I was very impressed with the MZ-S in this respect. Coming out of well below 20degrees under zero into a warm and moist cafe, it produced enough condensation to soak about 30 paper napkins. I just kept mopping it off until it had warmed up sufficiently to cease creating. Which bits does one mop (and therefore check for condensation)? It was me. I put the lens cap on before going inside. All surfaces were beaded with moisture immediately and I spent about 20 minutes mopping it off. I concentrated on the areas of joints, where the moisture might penetrate the lens or body. The intervals between moppings got longer and longer, until it was not necessary any more. mike (sent this yesterday but it was returned @ 4.00am)
Re: Panatomic X is still available ...
Hi, Shel wrote: ... according to a message I received earlier today. Polaroid makes a Type 55 4x5 and Type 665 3-1/4 x 4-1/4 positive/negative instant film. These films produce both a print and a negative for later enlarging, contact printing, or scanning. The film is Kodak's Panatomix-X very fine grain, extra sharp, film. I sometimes shoot Type 55 in my 4x5 just for the film since you cannot get Panatomic-X film any other way. Polaroid 665 is an ASA 80 film. I thought KP-X was much slower than that? mike
Re: Interesting experiment with *ist-D
Hi, Rob S. wrote: On 6 Jan 2004 at 8:24, mike.wilson wrote: http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/channel/1/extra/new/display/985378 Oh my, someone's found a use for the multi-expo, isn't that a pretty pic :-) What a coincidence that I should trip over that image within minutes of your query, which I had not seen. Windmill shots and multiple shots of people moving are all I've ever seen this function being used for. I find it odd that the perpetrator of the linked shot decided to use such a cluttered foreground for what could have turned out to be such a striking er, image 8-) Leading to the next question - if there was enough wind to turn the blades, why is the vegetation unblurred? I see the very tops are moving but I would expect more. Maybe that is another exposure He lists nine exposures but I can only count 15 blades which, divided by the normal three, gives a five exposure shot. The conifers and birches/aspens could be separate exposures. mike
A* 135/f1.8
Hi, http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2972378409category=4688rd=1 Any of us bid on this? I don't recognise any of the names. I was put off by the rusty screws on the outside and the lack of pictures of the glass. mike
RE: Unusual lens
Hi, Bob R wrote: I have seen them appear numerous times. For a real trip, check and see his present Pentax offerings. If I were a bidder, I would be happy to know that no one could see how dumb I really was g. The whole list is a classic example of how not to offer products. The prices are all over the place, though mostly too high. The descriptions are a bit awry, too, if this (apparently) fungussy and delaminating object is the seller's idea of clean. http://cgi.msn.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=4688item=2973004802 mike
Re[2]: A 70-210/4 - Focus Ring Looseness
Hi, Bob W. wrote: there are 2 versions of this lens. One is an SMC version, and the other is not SMC. This is marked on the lens, and the rubber grips on the focus/zoom ring are different - the non-SMC version has longer gnurls (or are they knurls?). Knurls. Gnurls are female 8-))) mknurl
Advertising
Hi, Recently, we castigated a particular Pentax ad for its apparent chauvinism. I've just seen a double page one for the EOS 300D. A football stadium (about 40-60,000+ fit in these places) with one or two people in closeup, chimping at the back of their 300D. Into the distance, others are doing the same and there is a blizzard of flash pinpoints. All of the people in closeup have the RTF erect. On the pitch, the ball is streaking towards the net but no-one is watching. Strapline: Professional digital photography. No longer just for the professionals. Now for the seriously inept amateur, too. Guess which part of the above is mine 8-) mike
Re: *istD North America Warranty
Hi, Dave B wrote (regarding repair work of cameras bought outside the country): Actually Nikon will not do any work let alone warranty. H. So you turn up with their product, hand full of hot little dollars, and they say No, thank you? Sounds to me like they have both little business sense and rather too much repair work. It also makes me wonder even more about the durability of digicams. mike
Re: artefacts
Hi, Arnie wrote: any idea what it might be? dirt on the sensor? Looks like dirt. Even more interesting, I cannot decide if the bright spots are hot pixels or stars. Probably the former, as the sun appears to be quite high. Do digiastrophotographers use extra high quality sensors to stop people discovering new heavenly objects? Given my TIC and skeptical posts on the subject of digicams, I suppose I had better state that this is a serious question. mike
Re: Help ID please
Hi, Alin wrote: What seems remarkable to me is that I took this picture at 1400 m altitude (4600 feet), where winters used to be long and harsh until no further than 10 years ago. The fact that this is the third summer that I constantly see the moth in the same location only, suggests that the species has naturalized and what I observe now are the descendants that manage to survive the winter in their cocoons. As the species prefers the warmer regions, it might be another indication of a warming climate. It migrates over large distances. I've seen one here, in NE England and they have been recorded in northern Scotland. As far as I know, it doesn't breed here. I would suspect it is native to Romania; certainly it is to Poland. http://www.migrantmoth.com/ go to latest sightings, and you can see from the list that it is found in many places in the UK - on 08 November one was seen about 30 miles south of me in Middlesborough. Hardy creature. That's an excellent picture; mine are all perfectly exposed shots of plants and empty air. mike
Re: OT:Weird place names-was: GFM Attendees (updated)
Hi, Frank wrote: Racking my brains over that one, Mark. I have this vague feeling that I should know them, or that I knew of them in a past life, but it's just not clicking right now. I remember there was a movie in the 70's called FM (wasn't there?) that no one went to see, but it had a really good soundtrack, with the title song by Steely Dan. Sure you're not thinking of UHF? Infinitely superior to anything by that bunch of westcoast wastrels. 8-) Polka time... mike
Re: OT: Snow fleas
Hi, Jostein wrote: Quoting mike.wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ...snow fleas... And they are.? Springtails with no respect for the cold. :-) 8-)) Interesting. Never seen those before (probably due to lack of snow...) - do you get them in Norway, too? Lots of other Collembolidae here, of course. I would love to see some of those dark blue beasts photographed against snow with a *ist-D. The chromatic aura should be positively psychedelic. Excellent site, btw. We're even 8-) mike
Re: horizon on *ist-D
Hi, Frits wrote: Stan's photo reminded me of this question: does the *ist D has something to help allign the horizon? I used to have a problem with this myself untill I got a grid screen for my PZ-1. Is there something like that for the *ist D? Frits, you are not getting into this digital imagery process at all. The process is snap, look, save or chuck. It even rhymes! (Whether you do that in an English (UK) way or an English (US) way is entirely up to you) Repeat ad nauseum, chimping at regular intervals when you get it right. mike
re: OT: Weird place names
Hi, Jostein wrote: Scottish place-names was good entertainment on our holiday trip with the Cot's last summer. There's pretty much Nordic heritage in those pronounciations, I think... Haugh is sucspiciously like the Norwegian haug meaning small hill or large mound. Would that fit the topography of Urr's place? :-) Not only in Scotland. In northern England, where the border only solidified in the last 300 years, heugh, haugh and various other spellings mean hill, rock, hummock, etc. Many, many words in the modern, local dialects derive from our visitors from across the North Sea. mike ganning yem
Bizarre eBay offering
Did any of us get this? A Katana would have been more appropriate http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2969470695category=4702 The mark of the zoom I like that 8-) mike
Re: Who else?
Hi, Cotty wrote: Jostein OksneYul Brynner I always think of him as more of a Baloo. mike
Re: Faces to names (three for the price of one)
The three bears: Baloo, Yogi and Boo-Boo. I'll leave you to guess which is which. About halfway down. Stefan is standing on the picnic basket. http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps/photoessays/scotlandday1.html
OT: Help required in USA (NJ)
Hi, I need some assistance in getting a small ($12) payment to someone in Clifton, NJ who is unable to take a bank transfer. From this end, I don't seem to be able to get a postal IMO or be able to send cash insured. If anyone can think of another way of getting the money to this chap, I would be extremely grateful. Please reply off list, as I do not receive list mails at this address. mike
Trade Tuesday
Hi, By a very circuitous route, I have come into possession of a Pentax Movie VHS camera recorder, model PV-C11E. It has its plastic briefcase, charger/AC adaptor(110~240V, 50~60Hz) and two batteries, one 800mAh, one 1500mAh. One 46mm W10 (light orange) filter. One RF output adaptor (channel 30 - 39, PAL/[OST]CCIR) and numerous cables. Seems undamaged but very slightly dusty; lenses are clear, clean and seem to be coated. It doesn't say so, though. No instructions, although the PV-C1SA on the Pentax download site is very similar, so I can include a print of the PDF file. Fired it up and it works as a camera. Flickery viewfinder, which seems to be the plug into the body. Magnificently slow autofocus. Haven't tried a tape in it but I can if anyone shows interest. I suppose it will be about 15-20 years old. Only of interest to me as a historic artefact, I would like to swap it for something I might have more use for. Looking for Pentax macro lenses (K mount) or LX viewfinders other than FB1, FC1, FF1, FA1. Due to size and transport costs, I think this is only viable in the UK. Cash adjustment if necessary - and I think it will be! Please respond off list to this addresss or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mike
OT: an interesting slant on copyright
Hi, The following is part of a footer I received in an acknowledgement email after writing a letter to a newspaper. Names have been obliterated to protect the guilty. 1.You will retain your copyright. 2. During the copyright period and afterwards, The x and those authorised by it have the world-wide assignable right to use your work in any publication or service in whatever media (e.g. CD Rom, newspapers, online etc). 3. The xx may further allow others to authorise scanning/photocopying of cuttings that include your letter. 4. The xx may shorten or edit your letter for publication. == In other words yes, it's yours but we will do what we like with it, including making money from it and giving it to whoever we please to. I believe it tried the same approach with photograph copyright. Stinky. mike
Re: Making your own (WAS Re: Anybody know where to get an SD-11 focusing screen?)
Hi, Fred wrote: If you have a piece of glass of the right shape and thickness, it would be easy to matte one side with a solution of sodium hydroxide. Some experimentation would be needed to get concentration and times. Gee, I don't think that NaOH will do anything to glass. I think that, to etch glass, you need hydofluoric acid (HF). Needs to be quite concentrated and to stay there for a few hours but it will make it nice and frosty with about 1/10th the danger of HF. mike
Making your own (WAS Re: Anybody know where to get an SD-11 focusing screen?)
Hi, Don wrote: Has anyone on the list tried to make a screen? I did the other day -- for a non-Pentax piece of equipment. I used a piece of glass from a 6x6 anti-Newton Ring slide mount. It worked very well. The glass is very clear but has very fine surface 'etching'. I guess there are notches and indentations in the camera screens that might make this approach difficult. But even glass can be shaped using the right abrasives and tools. The surface would need to be protected by tape while this is being done -- clear Scotch would do. The glass could be shaped with small toolmakers stones and the like. I hesitate to mention Dremel because the diamond wheels I've seen were all too coarse for glass. If you have a piece of glass of the right shape and thickness, it would be easy to matte one side with a solution of sodium hydroxide. Some experimentation would be needed to get concentration and times. mike
December PUG
Hi, If anyone is short of an idea.. http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/channel/1/extra/new/display/880617 mike
Barry Thornton
UK based BW photographer, has died. Long-time user of Pentax cameras. http://www.barry-thornton.co.uk/main.htm Try articles to read from the menu on the left. mike
Re: New Pentax SMC-DA 3.5-4.5/15-26
Hi, Ryan wrote: I was just wondering if anyone else agrees with me that the new DA lenses seem like a bit of a backward move. snip Whole thing kinda reminds me of APS.. Could it be this is another Pentax nail in the pro coffin? I've been wondering for some time whether the present DSLR scenario is just a way of amortising costs from APS technology development. Might explain why Pentax was so late into the game, it having no APS film SLR to base its design on. mike
Re: Wide angles for *ist D
Hi, Kostas wrote: You're kidding me. Fisheyes? No, he's just suprised. mike
MZ-S frame overlap (was Re: And now: the *ist D vs. the EOS 300D!)
Hi, John F wrote: They came out with a firmware upgrade for the MZ-S fairly fast (to fix the frame-overlapping problem). To Pentax's credit, they fixed this before retail production started. Anyone who had this problem had probably been sold a beta tester. mike
Re: MZ-S frame overlap
Hi, Bruce D wrote: Seems odd. One of mine - bought in the retail channel from BH had the problem. I seriously doubt that it was a beta tester. It was packaged and sold as new by a reputable dealer. The problem was posted on the Pentax website with serial #'s and a way to test if your camera was affected. This doesn't come across as being fixed before retail production. Perhaps this was the case in your country handled by your importer, but was not a worldwide case. Production models were shipped to the US at least with this firmware problem. It was fixed early in production because the second MZ-S that I purchased did not have this problem. It was purchased 4-6 months after the first one. pdmq That's why I wrote probably. I was certain that it was fixed in the European and Asian markets but not sure about worldwide. It was certainly known about well before production models began appearing anywhere. /pdmq mike
Bored at work, so....
Hi, Thinking (dreaming, more like) about how to become fabulously wealthy, I wondered if there is a potential market for new lens hoods for DSLRs. I assume that the original, 35mm coverage, lenshoods could now be significantly extended and not impinge on the APS-sized-chip image? mike
Cinema projection - WAS - Re: What DSLR Improvements I'd Like To See
Hi, Herb wrote: in the US, there is wholesale replacement of film with digital projectors for commercial movie theaters. yes, they will retain film for a while, but not a long while, since the films wear out so quickly. after that, it will be the boutique and art film theaters only that continue to use film. I find the first sentence very hard to believe. Even in the poxy, boxy multiplex booths the screen is rather large. As cinema film has an ASA of about 8 (eight), the resolution required for electronic projection would be well outside present capability. Not to mention colour saturation, or the lack of it.. On the other hand, modern cinema is generally designed for people with limited intellect and excess disposable income. mike
OT: Virus?
Hi, I got a message from b [EMAIL PROTECTED] that had a .pif file attached. The address is fairly obviously spoof but it might be worth folks checking their machines just in case. mike
OT: Motorway exit photography
Sounds like a job for Martin Parr.
OT: The NTL saga continues....
Hi, Having been given the manual specifications to set up my account because the setup software kept going kaput, I thought all would be well. Foolish boy. (copyright Capt. Mainwaring) We have now received our first bill and it is nearly twice the amount agreed. Of course, nobody that we speak to knows anything about any other agreement. Amusingly, the only contractual paperwork we were given specifies a price cheaper than the one we agreed. Talking to one of the poor sods who works for this organisation (that term is used loosely) it appears that we have been billed for our internet on the phone bill and we should have received an e-bill - except that, when you check the website, it says that e-bills are not available in our area. I am beginning to agree wholeheartedly with the guy who wrote that anonymous rant. If anyone is contemplating this service - DON'T DO IT! I would have to dislike someone more than slightly to inflict this upon them. It is my strongest recommendation that you avoid NTL as you would someone with bubonic plague. It is a corporate disaster. mike
Really, Really OT now:
Hi, Keith wrote: I suspect one of the few cars that might match it in pur sang fun would have been an early 4-banger Morgan. Boring! Try one of the three-wheelers with a methanol drinking OHV 1000+cc v twin on the front. Driven by a lunatic. Until you've been on one wheel in a three wheel vehicle, you have not lived. I almost didn't. Still get all trembly thinking about it. mike
RE: FA* 80-200mm f/2.8
Hi, Jan wrote: If you refer to the never use the zoom function part, I suspect Bill actually means the POWER-ZOOM feature of that lens. I suspect so, too, but have come to realise that the one thing you cannot do on this, or any other, forum is to assume that you know what people are talking (writing) about. Having used the 28-80 for some time, I am thinking of using that and the 80-200 as a travel set. mike
Subject: Re: FA* 80-200mm f/2.8
Hi, Mark R wrote: Man, sometimes I'm net even sure what *I'm* talking (writing) about! Seconded... 8- m
Re: Some PUG comments
Hi, Leon wrote: //*Nice things*\\ On the other hand (and this may be seen as stunningly rude from someone who didn't contribute) I was somewhat disappointed. I have been trying to phrase why in a way that would explain myself without upsetting or annoying people but I can't, so I'll leave it at that. mike
*ist D and metering / processing woes
Hi, Kick my bum into orbit if I am wrong but didn't Pentax, amongst others, produce a flash shoe lightmeter? Surely this will get you into ballpark land if you are unable to guesstimate correctly? One of my missing Kodachrome films arrived at the weekend. As one frame appears to be the best portrait I have ever taken, I am rather chuffed. mike
