Re: Lightroom Classic + Sonoma upgrades = Trouble (still)

2024-03-03 Thread Doug Brewer
I should be free mid afternoon. Fire when ready. On 3/3/24 6:08 PM, Rick Womer wrote: Thanks, Doug. I’d love to “pick your brain”! Church and a memorial service ate up today. Tomorrow is pretty clear; mid-to-late morning or after 2 in the afternoon would be best for me. -- %(real_name)s

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-03 Thread Bill
On 3/3/2024 4:25 PM, Larry Colen wrote: Very few of my fantasies are likely, that doesn't make them much less fun, it just means that they remain fantasies rather than becoming memories. You just described my experience with girls while I was a teenager. bill -- %(real_name)s

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-03 Thread Brian Walters
On 3/03/2024 8:01 pm, Henk Terhell wrote: More news on the Pentax film camera: https://youtu.be/xqRQTOkhOJU?si=PssAjafiIoYaxbuW As for me, with a least a dozen film camera's accumulating dust on the shelf is not fair to these to invest in a new one. Same here.  All of this discussion

Snowdrop

2024-03-03 Thread Comcast
The snowdrops bloomed yesterday. As I’ve done for many a year, I got down on the ground — more or less — and photographed a bloom. k-1, DFA 100/2.8 macro, f13 1/250th. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ewfysku994twcsd9puqoe/snowdrop.24.jpg?rlkey=csl5k56dysa7eqgjdu7so7udb=0 Paul -- %(real_name)s

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-03 Thread Comcast
As a medium, film suffers in comparison to digital in that it is less capable of low light reproduction and when pushed, image quality drops precipitously. The solution has always been larger formats. My best film work was generally on 6x7 or 6x6 film. Half a f a 35 mm frame has no appeal

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-03 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 03.03.24 um 18:29 schrieb Bill: I was quite surprised that it is a vertical half frame, but the logic behind that decision is that a vertical format is what the target market is already comfortable with. Making it a horizontal half frame would mean transporting the film from top to bottom

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-03 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 03.03.24 um 18:39 schrieb Doug Brewer: Grain is indeed part of the allure. In an earlier life, I used to shoot expired Tri X at 3200 and process it in Diafine, mostly because it was cheap and simple. You don't get much grainier than that. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne,

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-03 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 03.03.24 um 16:16 schrieb Bob W PDML: Yes. You’re not part of the target market. It’s aimed at young people who are using it for fun. If shooting grainy photos is fun then let them have it. :-) Ralf -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-03 Thread mike wilson
> On 03/03/2024 15:04 GMT Comcast wrote: > > > As a medium, film suffers in comparison to digital in that it is less capable > of low light reproduction and when pushed, image quality drops precipitously. > The solution has always been larger formats. My best film work was generally > on

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-03 Thread Darren Addy
My take is this: Pentax has a history of zigging while others are zagging.The demographic of the majority of those getting into film today are people who have been raised knowing nothing but digital - those to whom film is something new and different. (It's the Dr. Seuss book Star-Bellied

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-03 Thread Bill
On 3/3/2024 9:04 AM, Comcast wrote: As a medium, film suffers in comparison to digital in that it is less capable of low light reproduction and when pushed, image quality drops precipitously. The solution has always been larger formats. My best film work was generally on 6x7 or 6x6 film.

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-03 Thread Doug Brewer
Grain is indeed part of the allure. On 3/3/24 10:51 AM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: Am 03.03.24 um 16:16 schrieb Bob W PDML: Yes. You’re not part of the target market. It’s aimed at young people who are using it for fun. If shooting grainy photos is fun then let them have it. :-) Ralf --

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-03 Thread Bob W PDML
> Am I missing something here? Yes. You’re not part of the target market. It’s aimed at young people who are using it for fun. > On 3 Mar 2024, at 15:07, Comcast wrote: > > As a medium, film suffers in comparison to digital in that it is less > capable of low light reproduction and when

Lightroom Classic + Sonoma upgrades = Trouble (still)

2024-03-03 Thread Rick Womer
I have been using Lightroom since 2005, and it has worked well. There are over 50,000 photos in my library. Last week I upgraded the Mac OS to Sonoma 14.1.2, and upgraded LrC to 13.1. All hell broke loose. Since the upgrades LrC simply doesn't work: opening a library opens only a fraction of the

Re: Lightroom Classic + Sonoma upgrades = Trouble (still)

2024-03-03 Thread Doug Brewer
Rick, I'm home working on some edits. Drop me an email if you like and I'd be glad to offer what guidance I can. On 3/3/24 11:00 AM, Rick Womer wrote: I have been using Lightroom since 2005, and it has worked well. There are over 50,000 photos in my library. Last week I upgraded the Mac OS to

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-03 Thread Steve Cottrell
More on PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/02/29/pentaxs-brand-new-film-camera-will-lauch-this-summer/ > On 3 Mar 2024, at 09:01, Henk Terhell wrote: > > More news on the Pentax film camera: > https://youtu.be/xqRQTOkhOJU?si=PssAjafiIoYaxbuW > > As for me, with a least a dozen film

A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-03 Thread Henk Terhell
More news on the Pentax film camera: https://youtu.be/xqRQTOkhOJU?si=PssAjafiIoYaxbuW As for me, with a least a dozen film camera's accumulating dust on the shelf is not fair to these to invest in a new one. Henk -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-03 Thread Larry Colen
> On Mar 3, 2024, at 9:29 AM, Bill wrote: > > > On 3/3/2024 9:04 AM, Comcast wrote: >> As a medium, film suffers in comparison to digital in that it is less >> capable of low light reproduction and when pushed, image quality drops >> precipitously. The solution has always been larger

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-03 Thread Bill
On 3/3/2024 11:49 AM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: Am 03.03.24 um 18:39 schrieb Doug Brewer: Grain is indeed part of the allure. In an earlier life, I used to shoot expired Tri X at 3200 and process it in Diafine, mostly because it was cheap and simple. You don't get much grainier than that.

Re: Lightroom Classic + Sonoma upgrades = Trouble (still)

2024-03-03 Thread Rick Womer
Thanks, Doug. I’d love to “pick your brain”! Church and a memorial service ate up today. Tomorrow is pretty clear; mid-to-late morning or after 2 in the afternoon would be best for me. On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 13:20 Doug Brewer wrote: > Rick, I'm home working on some edits. Drop me an email

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-03 Thread Bill
On 3/3/2024 2:21 PM, Larry Colen wrote: You mean that there are people who think that photography is actually fun? Some of us still do it for the joy of doing it rather than treating it as some sort of chore where we need to post one masterpiece per day in Instagram. I was quite

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-03 Thread Larry Colen
> On Mar 3, 2024, at 1:34 PM, Bill wrote: >> If Ricoh were really thinking outside the box, they would take a film SLR >> and replace the focusing screen with a sensor. The viewfinder would be >> electronic, and it would be able to take digital images either as proofs or >> cheap snaps,