Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-14 Thread Joseph McAllister
My complaint was that Apple just upgraded the OS from 10.5.7 to 10.5.8 on the 5th of August, and no support for the K-7. The security update of course did not contain anything of use to Pentax. On Aug 13, 2009, at 03:13 , Thibouille wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Joseph

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-13 Thread Thibouille
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Joseph McAllisterpentax...@mac.com wrote: Back to the negative. Aperture, iPhoto, Preview - none of the apps on my Mac will let me view any images (PEF) off of the K-7. Aperture comes the closest. It generated thumbnails. I sent email berating Apple and Pentax

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Miserere
2009/8/11 Sasha Sobol sa...@asobol.com: Miserere, that's a pity - I was going to take dancing and singing lessons from you :( --Sasha Yeah, it's sad. But hey, you can still take lessons from me, Sasha. Just not Photography lessons...I wouldn't want to ruin your pictures. --M. --

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Larry Colen
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 03:29:26AM -0700, Sasha Sobol wrote: A couple of shots I took with my K20d and their 55mm: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/3803774714/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/3802958471/ I tried different lenses and I really liked 200mm, 300mm and 50-250mm. No free

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Larry Colen
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 04:16:45PM -0700, Sasha Sobol wrote: I was afraid you would sentence to writing your name 2,000 times. Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere ... Oh well, Miz :) With the s in Miserere shouldn't that be Ms ? -- The first step is learning to take

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Miserere
2009/8/12 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 04:16:45PM -0700, Sasha Sobol wrote: I was afraid you would sentence to writing your name 2,000 times. Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere ... Oh well, Miz :) With the s in Miserere shouldn't that be Ms ?

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Larry Colen
This is pretty much my first chance to sit down at a computer since Saturday. To make a long story short, I bartered taking photos at a dance workshop for a huge discount. I like the K-7, I *want* the K-7, right now I can't buy the K-7, I didn't win the K-7. Still not king. The K-7 is slightly

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Larry Colenl...@red4est.com wrote: I realized that you just can't learn much about gear playing around with it in a hotel room. Mark! It is somewhat tempting to buy one at Fry's and return it after spending a weekend putting it through its paces under real

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Aug 12, 2009, at 10:31 , Larry Colen wrote: The topic of my pocket camera came up, and people marvelled at the lens cap on my DA 40. I forget who told me about it, but I'm certain that the sunshade had to have been designed with that in mind. Mark even took pictures of it. and someone at

RE: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Desjardins, Steve
I wasn't thinking Mark! so much as depends on the gear ;-) -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Matthew Hunt Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 1:48 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Larry Colen
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 01:27:08PM -0400, Miserere wrote: 2009/8/12 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 04:16:45PM -0700, Sasha Sobol wrote: I was afraid you would sentence to writing your name 2,000 times. Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere ... Oh

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Aug 12, 2009, at 11:52 , Joseph McAllister wrote: I will now try something I have not before, and that is to us someone's software to convert the PEFs to DNGs of JPEGs s can see them bigger than a business card. Correction to things the spell checker did not flag, so it's a real

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:52:58AM -0700, Joseph McAllister wrote: Positive. I got to watch a Professional Photographer struggle to test out his 250-600 Pentax on a K-7. Couldn't find anything far enough away that the ?5.6 lens would focus on. So he went out to where he could find some

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Aug 12, 2009, at 12:40 , John Francis wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:52:58AM -0700, Joseph McAllister wrote: Positive. I got to watch a Professional Photographer struggle to test out his 250-600 Pentax on a K-7. Couldn't find anything far enough away that the ?5.6 lens would focus on.

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Sasha Sobol
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Larry Colenl...@red4est.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 03:29:26AM -0700, Sasha Sobol wrote: A couple of shots I took with my K20d and their 55mm: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/3803774714/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/3802958471/ I tried

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread gldnbearz
There isn't a NorCal PDML planned that I know of. The last one was in Sacramento in the spring. - Pat On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Sasha Sobolsa...@asobol.com wrote: When is the next NorthCal meeting? The guy with Sasha tag was me indeed :) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-11 Thread Miserere
2009/8/9 Sasha Sobol sa...@asobol.com: Oops, how did I dare to misspell your name? Indeed, how dare you. You're banned from spelling my name for a week, and...no soup for you! :-p --M. PS: Everybody seems to just end up writing Miz because my internet handle has too many R's and E's :-)

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-11 Thread Sasha Sobol
I was afraid you would sentence to writing your name 2,000 times. Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere ... Oh well, Miz :) Btw, I heard you will be covering Paris Hilton, dancing instead of her - what's up with it? --Sasha On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:08 AM,

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-11 Thread Miserere
2009/8/11 Sasha Sobol sa...@asobol.com: Btw, I heard you will be covering Paris Hilton, dancing instead of her - what's up with it? Sasha, You shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet...there are a lot of jokesters out there! ;-) --M. --

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-11 Thread Sasha Sobol
Miserere, that's a pity - I was going to take dancing and singing lessons from you :( --Sasha On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Misereremiser...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/11 Sasha Sobol sa...@asobol.com: Btw, I heard you will be covering Paris Hilton, dancing instead of her - what's up with it?

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-10 Thread gldnbearz
I was at the K7 tour at the San Francisco stop today where I ran into John Celio. Neither of us won the K7. It would be nice if a PDML member won one. I got to play with the K7 and found it to my liking with respect to size (smaller lighter than Kx0D) and low shutter/mirror noise (John called it

The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-09 Thread John Francis
Unfortunately neither Larry nor I won the K-7 they gave away :-( But they did bring a whole load of nice tempting toys to play with: http://www.jfwaf.com/temp/RoadShow1.jpg Apart from several working K-7s (and a cutaway model, and a model with a transparent body shell) and a Star Wars

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-09 Thread Sasha Sobol
A couple of shots I took with my K20d and their 55mm: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/3803774714/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/3802958471/ I tried different lenses and I really liked 200mm, 300mm and 50-250mm. No free camera for me, instead my bike was stolen. I love San Jose! --Sasha

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-09 Thread Miserere
Sasha, You can never have too many... WHAT? Lenses, cameras, T-shirts with silly phrases, off-topic PDML posts...? What? We need to know! Nice shot of Mark D. otherwise :-) Sorry to hear your bike got nicked :-( --M. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-09 Thread David J Brooks
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 2:34 AM, John Francisjo...@panix.com wrote:    http://www.jfwaf.com/temp/RoadShow1.jpg (The above shot, of course, is taken with the 10-17mm fisheye @17mm. That's fairly obvious. Not quite so obvious, perhaps, is that it was taken at ISO 3200 using one of the K-7s; I

RE: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-09 Thread Bob W
Sasha, You can never have too many... WHAT? Lenses, cameras, T-shirts with silly phrases, off-topic PDML posts...? What? We need to know! ...cormorants nesting in your beard Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-09 Thread Sasha Sobol
Miserer, It was our John btw. Of course lenses :) --Sasha On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Misereremiser...@gmail.com wrote: Sasha, You can never have too many... WHAT? Lenses, cameras, T-shirts with silly phrases, off-topic PDML posts...? What? We need to know! Nice shot of Mark D.

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-09 Thread Sasha Sobol
Oops, how did I dare to misspell your name? On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Sasha Sobolsa...@asobol.com wrote: Miserer, It was our John btw. Of course lenses :) --Sasha On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Misereremiser...@gmail.com wrote: Sasha, You can never have too many... WHAT? Lenses,