Re: The travels and travails of Boris

Hi there. Sitting in the nice Mid Northern England house... > > > >That will teach him to leave civilisation 8-) > > That will only encourage me to leave civilization, Mike... Really, come on, you don't expect me to be all my life around these gadgets, do you? ;-) > Why didn't they get the tr

PESO - London Sketches - 1

Hi! I've brought back mere 251 image from my trip... I am going to start processing them properly and posting a series of PESOs... I had few ideas in mind - one of which was to make sketches of London people (Londonians/Londoners?). So, enough with words - here comes the picture: http://ww

PESO - Northumbrian series - 1

Hi! http://www.photoforum.ru/rate/photo.php?photo_id=211000 More to come. Special thanks to Mike who generously let me use his Zenitar fish eye lens... Boris

Re: What Would Make a DSLR "Obsolete"?

Shel, I think that what you're asking is very close to request for future foretelling... Technologically *istD is seriously outdated already. After all, it's been introduced at 2003. But this is a techno-geek inside me speaking. The pictures I took with it just last week in UK are as lovely to my

Re: PESO - Veins

Bruce > Pentax *istD, Tamron 90/2.8 Macro, Tripod > ISO 400, 1/250 sec @ f/4.0 > > http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkd_2145.htm I am distracted by the light source just beneath the leaf. Was it possible at the time of shooting to have this light source behind the leaf? It is a good shot, but it

Re: PESO - Northumbrian series - 1

Mike, > 8-) What makes it doubly amusing for me is the difference between your > footprints on the > left of Galia and mine on the right. You did well to get > a non-blurry picture of Cath. > > Thinking about the size of the beach, did you make a landscape version? I've made a couple lan

Re: PESO - Northumbrian series - 1

> I suppose that being 6 feet tall I am already infinitely away from the ground > ;-). Correction - my head is infinitely away from the ground ;-). -- Boris

Re: Why full frame?

Kevin, Let us wait until Mike processes his pictures he probably took at me while I was having a very silly smile on my face handling his finest specimen of Zenitar 16/2.8 fisheye... Some people (me included) like wide angle photography. For them, affordable 24 mm lens on full frame sensor is much

Re: Re: Why full frame?

> Actually, I took more pictures of you trying to handhold the 500mm. Some of > those contortions looked positively masochistic. 8-) G. Unfortunately I don't have big glass to kick you around when you're here... I'll see what kind of enablement is in order... -- Boris

Re: Re: What Would Make a DSLR "Obsolete"?

> That would be "us" as in those who have spent the money to get one? I > certainly haven't and I'm aware of at least two users who are of the opinion > that they have bought their last camera with a DSLR. I'd second that. I am not claiming that *istD is my last ever Pentax camera... However, I

PESO - Big Ben

Hi! Yet another of my London sketches... Extra effort I've put into this was to sit on the pavement and wait until people and cars made an opening for a clear shot... Please click on the picture so that it would open on black. If you can, please set your browser to full-page mode. Thanks.

Re: PESO - Big Ben

Hi! Bear in mind that this pic seems to have been taken in the evening - note the lighted lamp post. I like the idea that the clock tower is in deep shadow, although, on my monitor, it and the surrounding buildings look a little dark. If there were any adjustment to the shadows it would be ver

Re: PESO - Big Ben

Hi! I love the composition, the tilted tower, the sun hidden behind the cloud, but Big Ben itself looks very under exposed. Doubtless because of metering trying to compensate for the sun. Did you take this with an *ist D (x)? Hopefully RAW? You may be able to just the exposure setting or

Re: PESO - Big Ben

Hi! Nice one Boris. I'm impressed. Trivia time. Without Googling, what's the clock tower that houses Big Ben actually called? You win, I loose. When we meet again I buy you a drink. While you drink your drink you tell me the story... ;-) Boris

Re: PESO - Big Ben

Hi! http://www.photoforum.ru/rate/photo_only.php?photo_id=211178 Great shot, Boris! It's very difficult to get a shot of the Houses of Parliament Clock Tower (you know that Big Ben is one of the bells inside, not the tower itself, right?) without it being cliched, but you've done it. I like th

Re: Large Print Quality From 6mp Cameras (was: )

Hi! When I see such a print that meets my standards using the technique you've described, I'll believe it. I've not seen anything approaching a 16x20 or larger made from a 6mp Pentax camera that qualifies as "stunning" by my standards. I know that there are plug-ins and software that supposedly

Re: Large Print Quality From 6mp Cameras (was: )

Hi! Oh yes! Here's how mine varies: For landscape shots with a lot of detail that I want to blow up large I take 4-6 shots and stitch them together. Next year at Grandfather Mountain I'm going to be giving a presentation on this topic. I'll bring along some big prints of 18-25 megapixel images t

PESO - Westminster Abstract

Hi! http://www.photoforum.ru/rate/photo.php?photo_id=211483 What do you say? Boris P.S. Shall I ask Cotty for a trivia question such as - what would be geographical coordinates of the location? ;-)

Re: Mini London PDML

Hi! Just got back from a short meet with Bob W, Boris and co, John Forbes, Billy and Steve Jolly by the Thames at Hammersmith. I didn't take many shots, but will post a few tomorrow. I thought Boris was a mad Russian, but he was actually quite sane ;-) I wonder if there's a connection to the

Re: CR-V3 rechargeables

Hi! Oh yeah: I carried 6x 1Gbyte storage cards and an Epson P2000 storage device. Well worth it. But why 6 cards if you have storage device handy? Seriously. Simplify, simplify. I found the less I carried, the better my pictures were. I never carried more than two/three lenses at a time,

Re: CR-V3 rechargeables

Hi! Are the rechargeable CR-V3 batteries lithium? Are they as long lasting (or nearly so) as the non-rechargeable type? I noticed that they're specifically not recommended in the manual for the *ist-DS. Has anyone out there tried them, and to what level of success? I don't shoot rapid seq

Re: CR-V3 rechargeables

Hi! My reply is between your lines... > I don't normally carry the P2000 around with me all day. I like to do > all my card to tank backup and verification after the day's shooting > is done. It's a 1lb device the size of a pocket paperback book ... I > don't really want to carry the extra weight

Re: CR-V3 rechargeables

Shel, > Sheesh! 250 exposures a day is a lot. Over the course of an 8 hour day, > that's more than one exposure every two minutes, assuming you don't break > for lunch, afternoon tea, or go to the bathroom. And on a busy day that > works out to be closer to one per minute, not considering break

Re: CR-V3 rechargeables

> If you reread my message you'll see that I wasn't quoting you ... my > comments referenced a message by Godfrey. My bad. Boris

Re: quantity and quality

Godfrey, There is still one thing that is indeed limitation, even to your style of shooting. That would be total number of clicks before shutter gives out... Otherwise you're quite right... Though my "style" differs from yours. -- Boris

Re: quantity and quality

Hi! I've not yet worn out a shutter mechanism, I had my Nikon FM for almost 20 years. I can only hope the same is true for the Pentax DS. If you'll be first to cross the finish line do tell us how it happens ;-). Boris

Re: Patch adding hidden functios to PS EL

Hi! I stumbled across a patch that is supposed to add some of the hidden function in Elements. - Curves - Channel mixer - Layer mask - Selective Colour adjustments And it’s free! To good to be true? Does anybody know anything significant about this? http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/pho

Re: PESO -- Cruising is Serious Business

Hi! http://www.mindspring.com/~webster26/PESO_--_cisb.html Equipment Pentax *ist-D smc Pentax 28-200mm f3.8~5.6AL[IF] As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. It is a good picture... However on my monitor it appears rather non-sharp... What focal length was used? Was it han

Re: Pancakes for Breakfast

Hi! Just curious ... can the aperture be set between stops, like between 2.8 and 3.5, or can the camera do that automagically? Shel, in *istD there is a setting where you define how camera steps through aperture and shutter speed values in 1/2 or 1/3 stops... Hence, you have the control you

PESO - Yet another of my London sketches

Hi! http://www.photosight.ru/photo.php?photoid=1005522&ref=author Wonder what you have to say. Boris

Re: PESO - Yet another of my London sketches

Hi! This is very similar to one of my recent photos, so naturally I like the idea ;-)) Well, I naturally wasn't aware of that ;-). Unfortunately, the framing or cropping leaves something to be desired. The angle of the bench lessens the impact of the photo and creates an unneeded and unwelc

Re: PESO - Yet another of my London sketches

Hi! I like the idea of this photo a lot. It would have been stronger to my eye if you'd framed the shot from a little bit more to the right, so that you were square-on to the bench rather than at a slight angle. The slight angle and the perspective it gives just tips the balance of the co

Re: PESO - London Sketches - 1

Hi! I can't say as this photo does much for me. There's a guy in a suit walking down the street. He's not doing anything, he's not involved in a situation that's captured in the photo, there's no interesting expression on his face. Quite honestly, I don't find much interesting about him at al

Re: PESO - Yet another of my London sketches

Hi! Give her a red beret and a book, and it could be a shot Shel posted about a month ago (IIRC) . Don't ask me to do that, I ain't no painter ;-). It is, of course, a much different shot (despite the similarities) I find her pose interesting, stretching her arms behind her like that. At

Re: PESO - Westminster Abstract

Hi! I say "great"! It's another one of those photos that I'd probably walk past without noticing. I particularly like the relationship between the diagonal line and the leaves. Thanks Brian. I am thinking of compiling a page of such images... I may call the theme "Passing by"... Seriously.

Re: PESO - Videography

Hi! http://www.alpert.com/marco/pdml/peso23.html Comments welcomed. Marco, this is terrific. It has the infinite loop in it. Julia just chuckled when I showed her the picture and she's read the comment. I should say that from content point of view it is just perfect. Technically I may be

Re: PAW: People & Portraits #34 - GDG

Hi! This is one of about forty or so exposures made at the Tate Modern in London, shooting down to the turbine hall from the mezzanine level at around 4:30 in the afternoon. It was very hard to pick which one I wanted to show here: http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/34.htm Comm

Re: PAW: People & Portraits #34 - GDG

Hi! This is one of about forty or so exposures made at the Tate Modern in London, shooting down to the turbine hall from the mezzanine level at around 4:30 in the afternoon. It was very hard to pick which one I wanted to show here: http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/34.htm Wo

Re: PESO:Another Thinker

Hi! Enough background, here is the link to the picture: http://foto.no/cgi-bin/bildegalleri/vis_bilde.cgi?id=191031 I was playing with body language. *istDS at RAW 400 ISO, and Tamron 28.75/2,8 at 55mm, f22 and 1/50. Fascinating, truly fascinating... Boris

Re: PAW: Navigating Chinatown

Hi! I only had a chance to shoot about 1 roll in New York back in July that wasn't related to the Messengers' World Championship. This was taken while Annsan and I were on our way to grab lunch in Chinatown, on my last day in the City. Hope you enjoy: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_

Re: PAW - "Spider"

Hi! I finally got around to doing some more scanning. This photo was actually taken in portrait orientation but I think it looks better this way. http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/photo/printsdb/view.php?print_id=99&t=PAW Arachnids... Grrr... I hate arachnids... Good shot though ;-). Boris

Re: PESO: Colourful Web

Hi! It's spider season. There are hundreds of them out there. I managed not to walk into this one and it is quite attractive with the sunlight refracting through it http://members.shaw.ca/hargravep/Image9.htm It looks like a very strange natural constellation... I wonder if you tried to

Re: I should know this ...

And so are your motorways signs... > You'd think so. Prices for fuel are in litres. Temps are in centigrade. > But all our cars drive in miles :-/ I am still seriously impressed by "look both ways" writing beneath my feet somewhere in Hyde Park... ;-) -- Boris

Re: PESO - London Sketches - 1

Hi! > Actually, Boris, the photo is very interesting. This man is committing a > sartorial outrage. The Panama hat is correctly worn with flannels and a > blazer, or even with shorts, whilst a double-breasted pinstripe suit cries > out for a bowler. > > The only explanation I can come up with i

Re: PESO - Northumbrian series - 1

Hi! Terrific!! I love this shot! And, doesn't that lens work nicely on they *istD (or Ds, or whatever you have)? I put my Zenitar fisheye on Cesar's D at GFM, and really liked the results. Thanks, Frank. I should say that Mike's sample was very carefully chosen by Russian Penta Club found

Re: PESO - Westminster Abstract

Hi! I say: "I like it!" But I don't think it's an abstract... I suppose "abstract" is in itself rather abstract concept... Regardless, I'm glad you liked the shot ;-). Boris

Re: PESO - Westminster Abstract

Hi! Oh, I like that. Very simple. You have a lot of classic elements put together very nicely. Very pleasing to the eye. May I boast a little, please ;-)? This was done with just two takes and this is full frame with very minimal processing applied. Well, enough boasting... Thanks Marnie.

Re: Peso: Two from the football game

Hi! http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/football/_IGP9054.html http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/football/_IGP9066.html Shot with the F*300/4.5. Seems a decent enough lens Bill, it is technically very sound and competent... But without any knowledge of the game (it is American

GESO - UK 2005 (version 1.0)

Hi! Finally I realized I have enough images to compile a gallery. This is my first attempt on using automated gallery creation tools. So here you have 16 images. Each image is roughly 150 Kb in size. Some of those you've seen, some you haven't... Feel free to comment. Brutality and honesty are re

GESO - UK 2005 (version 1.0)

Hi! Finally I realized I have enough images to compile a gallery. This is my first attempt on using automated gallery creation tools. So here you have 16 images. Each image is roughly 150 Kb in size. Some of those you've seen, some you haven't... Feel free to comment. Brutality and honesty a

Re: GESO - UK 2005 (version 1.0)

Hi! That little cutie is Boris' daughter, isn't it Boris? I agree with the others; a terrific photo! Ladies and Gentlemen, don't you have facial memory? Frank's absolutely right, Galia is running and eating some spaghetti... Boris

Re: GESO - UK 2005 (version 1.0)

Hi! Well done Boris - great gallery - some wonderful pics, nicely displayed. Big thumbs up here. I'd lose the colour shot of the boats - the mono one is fantastic. Well done you mad Russian :-) Indeed, that is one of my dilemmas here... Just recently I tried the two Hue/Saturation layers tec

Re: Patch adding hidden functios to PS EL

Hi! Boris, or somebody else. I have installed the patch now. Curves are working, but I can't find the channel mixer. And the channel mixer is the main reason I downloaded it now. Where is channel mixer supposed to be, in the effects bin or some place else? Don't believe there will be much hel

Re: Probably going to switch

Hi! After looking at the Canon EOS 5D at $3,300 U.S, I'm probably going to switch to that camera. With Canon's resources and it's ability to make it's own sensors, I think it's clear that they will be the front runner and leader of DSLR cameras. Now with the advantages full frame (you can argue

Re: GESO - UK 2005 (version 1.0)

Hi! The spaghetti eater is a real charmer. Eating with the whole face. But now specks at the t-shirt? That’s spooky ;-) It is easy, Tom. It simply was shot at the beginning of the feast... But then of course Galia is growing and sometimes she can eat through the dish ;-) and leave her tea-sh

Re: GESO - UK 2005 (version 1.0)

Hi! A strong gallery, Boris. I know I'm really behind on PAW's and PESO's, and will likely not catch up (I think I'll have to delete a bunch of older ones). If the first one of the older couple on the bench was a PAW, I'm glad I saw it now. What a wonderful photo. I can't figure out what, bu

Re: GESO - UK 2005 (version 1.0)

> Talking to me? Noo, can't be. > This Norwegian ain't mad. I'm utterly crazy ;-) Sorry, Tim, I was speaking of mister Jostein Oksne. -- Boris

Re: Patch adding hidden functios to PS EL

> :-) > Found it. > Have I ever told you I love you Boris? ;-) > Don't worry, kidding, but thanks. No you've done that ;-). > Now I'm going to do some B&W conversions with the Channel mixer. It can be fun. Be sure that your monitor is properly profiled. And naturally good luck. By the way, do

Re: PESO: Others 2005 - 35p - GDG

Ditto. > indeed very nice ! > Michael > > On 8/29/05, Doug Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > very nice, Godfrey. So, Godfrey, you used FA 50/1.7. How does it compare with 28-105 that you usually use. After I tried mine, I never looked back at any zoom that had 50 mm in its range... -- Bori

Re: Keepy-ups

Hi! I claim the World Record of 3 (well, really two and one catch and gentle lower) for: LX + FB1 + FC1 + 90mm Macro (hood extended) + strap at: Druridge Bay, Northumberland, UK on: 29th august 2005 Phew.. It was on the parcel shelf of the boot and as I swung my rucksack on, it caught

Re: Ordered the DS this Morning

Hi! This morning I ordered an istDS. I'd like to thank EVERYONE who, over the past couple of weeks or so, has replied to my many questions about the camera and how various features and lenses work. I've thanked a few people off list, and this is to cover any I may have missed. I'm excitedly l

Re: Ordered the DS this Morning

Hi! BTW, what's the widest lens currently available for this camera, Pentax or otherwise? No need to mention the new Penatx 12~24 zoom. Penang 8mm FF fisheye? Mike, it is Peleng. You have to learn to spell ;-). Boris

Re: GESO - UK 2005 (version 1.0)

Hi! You have a good eye for a picture, Boris. You're not welcome in my house any more. 8-))) What are you talking about, mista? I haven't taken any pictures in/of your house... :- Boris

Re: Re: Keepy-ups

Hi! > Not a mark on the gear but I have a sore toe. BTW, I had the opportunity to > try both wines > this weekend. Excellent stuff. Recommend the Chardonnay. The Merlot was > good but > slightly bland. I usually prefer white wines to red ones. But naturally we had to bring at least one sa

Re: Re: Ordered the DS this Morning

Mike, > I can't write Russian 8-) Meant to put a (?) after the spelling.. Your active Russian is rather good really. -- Boris

Re: Tutorials on B&W conversion

Hi! I agree 100% on both points. One problem I've seen frequently is that the quality of the color image has not been maximized before the conversion is begun. Mark! Shel, now you're talking ;-). In fact, all this time I was doing my b/w conversions based on the exactly opposite assumption

Re: Advice needed: to switch or not to switch....

Hi! I DO like Pentax and I DO like my Canon Bottom line - it's not a flame... I'm really in a hard situation and in a big dilema. I do want to have only 1 system and use the great Pentax lenses i already have. It's really hard to run with 2 bags with 6 lenses and all that stuff... i'm actually c

Re: WOW(Was:First attemt on B&W conversion)

Hi! I see you are all working on the BW conversion solutions so i wanted to share some information. Lately, i've found a GREAT PS (yes it's only photoshop.. sorry) freeware plugin that does extrimely good B&W and other conversions, knows to add many types of grain and all kind of special effect

Re: Advice needed: to switch or not to switch....

Hi! I still think that *istD is slightly better than *istDS (I know, Godfrey, you probably disagree ;-) )... Better is a very general word. The *ist D is a higher-spec body than the DS. I happen to like the DS more, because those additional things the D supports are not important to me a

Demise of my 28-70/4

Hi! It seems my FA 28-70/4 AL is going to see its creator... I mounted it on *istD after about a month or so of no use. What I see is this: 1. Very visible (in viewfinder) pink/magenta warm cast. 2. Sometimes it looks as if I am looking through a "dirty window" filter... Is this *it*? If so,

Any PDMLers in Vancouver

Hi! There is rather positive (I think 50/50) chance that I'll be in Vancouver towards the end of September or beginning of October... Anyone willing to meet? Contact me off-list if you please. Thanks. Boris

Potential replacement for 28-70/4

Hi! I realize that this has been discussed to dust (if there is such a term)... So let's make it brief, shall we. :-) How good/bad performs SMC FA 28-105/4-5.6 (not power zoom, but Tamron rebadged lens) compared to 28-70/4 AL. I do realize that it is going to be 35 mm longer. I am however in

Re: Demise of my 28-70/4

Hello again... It just occurred to me... If you need my 28-70 for parts such as mount pieces or electronic contacts, do contact me... I can send it out easily :-). Boris

Re: Demise of my 28-70/4

Hi! Sadly Boris, most of them have the same problem and the electronics are fine. Yep. What I meant that if any of you has another (not this very kind of) lens that misses a piece of mount or a contact or anything that can be taken from 28-70/4... You can have mine... I just would hate to

Re: PESO: Chinatown Canyon (resend)

Hi! I think I may have had trouble with my posts not having gone through earlier this evening, so I'm resending this one; apologies if this is a duplicate. This is noteworthy only for the person featured in it, a well-loved PDML member who doesn't seem to like having her picture taken and disp

Re: PESO - Something aa little bit different...

Hi! ... for me anyway. Yes, it's a damn bird. However, the day's shooting was disrupted by nasty clouds that rendered the water very washed out. I washed it out even more in Photoshop, and converted to B&W. Comments always appreciated. http://home.mindspring.com/~c_skofteland/id30.html

Re: GESO: Statue Park, Budapest

Hi! Just for the sake of posting something different. Statues are not really my thing, but this was kind of interesting. Take it as a set of tourist pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbuhler/sets/858094/ istD, FA16-45 for most of them. Skies overly dramatized in PS, on purpose. Juan, this i

Re: GESO: Opera at the Town Hall Square

Hi! In my small town, tonight was opera night, as a part of the local festival week. I just had to put my "D" to work: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bladt/sets/859350/show/ Comments are wwelcome, naturally. Regards Jens I am very impressed, especially by the lens combination you used... Thanks

Re: GESO: Opera at the Town Hall Square

Hi! Thanks, Boris. I guess what you mean is, it's a bit unusual to get rather nice concert shots with such a slow combo? Indeed. Well, I really should get the 2.8/200mm or the 2.8/80-200mm. I know. But I don't have that kind of money available right now. Once more I agree ;-). Please loo

Re: PESO: Chinatown Canyon (resend)

Hi! I don't think you and Shel read my initial post. I said it was a lousy photo that didn't capture Chinatown very well, and that it was notable only because Annsan was in it. I cannot tell for Shel, but I sure did not... My fault but I usually tend to first look at the picture and then rea

Re: Back from Ukraine

Hi! I just got back today, as you may have guessed from the few replies I already posted :) With only one camera and 2/35mm lens, and lotsa film, so if I have any interesting photographs (I hope ) you will see some eventually. Overall, it was a great trip, and once you learn a bit Ukrainian an

Re: OT: Digital High Key

Jens Does anyone have any experience making High Key photographs using a digital camera? Does this one count: http://www.photoforum.ru/rate/photo.php?photo_id=203388 ? It was obtained by PSEL manipulation. Boris

Re: PESO - Night Fire

Hi! A wildfire started yesterday not too far from home (about 20 miles). This shot is about a 50% crop, taken with the *istD and the FA 31mm f/1.8 LTD. ISO 400, at f/2.8, 13 seconds in bulb mode. Comments welcome. http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3697717 Tom, I see some night

Re: PESO (s) Wheel Veal & Freek out

Hi! Well I spent yesterday visiting friends and exploring the Woodstock Fair. The oldest agriculture fair in the United States. I brought my *ist-D and came away with a fare number of images. I don't think these are too bad so let my present Wheel, Veal and Freekout. http://www.mindsprin

Re: PESO: Sprint!

Hi! *Caution, yet another bike photo* How can one protect oneself in such a case ? I wanted to post a "proper" PAW, but my photo lab closed for the long weekend, and I can't get to the lab weekdays these days due to my longer working hours at my new job. Oh well. Those of use who are di

Re: PAW - "Red"

Hi! A PUG theme waiting to happen. Interesting photo, Dave. I like the patterns and geometries. I fear that it suffers being so small for the computer. There's probably lots of texture and detail in there that we're missing. I bet it'd look great as a nice big print. Darn it, I agree wi

Re: PESO :Ocean Lasndescape

Hi! Here is the best picture I took to check out my new DS. Lens was the FA20-35. And here is the URL: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3699834 John, if you permit. You probably went to 20 mm wide end of the zoom. And so a part of you, I suspect a head, in the frame - the bottom

Re: PESO: My Precocious Granddaughter

Hi! My granddaughter is now eleven months old, and she is, of course, reading. I started her out on the New York Times, because I think it will be a plus in terms of vocabulary development. I did tell her to beware the liberal bias. She answered, "You don't have to tell me, Grandpa." That's m

Re: PESO: My Precocious Granddaughter

Hi! Thanks Shel. It's the DA 16-45 @ 28mm focal length. The stop is f8, the shutter is 1/30th. I had the Sigma 500 Super flash mounted with the omnibounce reflector that splits the light between the reflector and the ceiling 20/80. So the main light is overhead with fill coming from the camer

Re: PESO -- (another) Beast

Hi! Found (by my wife) in my back yard today ... http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/album_photo.html?c_photo=32644654 Any ideas what this is ? (ist D, 16-45 @ f4 1/500) [ferengi voice] feemale [end ferengi voice] Nice DOF control ;-). Boris

Re: PESO

Hi! Here is the best picture I took to check out my new DS. Lens was the FA20-35. Blimey! Boris

PAW - Little Londoner

Hi! If you stand so that the Buckingham palace is on you back and go left, you enter a part... What would be its name? Never mind - my mind is often working in a very peculiar ways... Here is a PAW photo for you to look at. As usual in this case, I am particularly interested about what you h

Re: PESO: My Precocious Granddaughter

Hi! > I did spend quite a bit of time on the floor with her. It's essential > to getting decent pics of itty-bitty kids. I totally agree with you... Even more "totally" than you can probably imagine :-). -- Boris

Re: Are most lenses optimised for short distance focusing?

Dario, > In my experience, it is not uncommon that lenses perform better at close > distances than at infinity. Of course, when focusing at infinity you have to > consider that haze, smog, etc. will lower the resolution performance of any > lens... however, even leaving aside macro and close-ups,

Re: PESO (s) Wheel Veal & Freek out

> Not usually, In the case of the two midway rides the focal length was > 28mm but I was trying to get in as much of the scene as possible, though > the framing was as wide as I wanted it, otherwise I would have switched > to the 20-35 that I also had with me. The calves were shot at 85mm. > The 4

Re: PESO :Ocean Lasndescape

> You caught me. Yup. That is exactly what happened. I thought about it > and decided to leave it there, with a short curse) and accept the > consequences. Next time I will be more careful. But it is a nice > picture of my head shadow???!! In fact, I had not intention to *catch* you. But you

Re: Popped over to Berlin

Hi! Not much Pentax content I'm afraid, but there's the odd lunatic around here who likes to see what I get up to when I'm working, so here ya go. Cotty, I know by witness you're tall... But, puleeezze, you're not *that* tall t

Re: SV: PESO - The Bridge

Actually I used to strive for high contrast in my film days. I loved burned out highlights. Now when I do it, nobody believes me! Nah, I ain't no believing ya... ;-) Boris

Re: PESO - The Bridge

Hi! I flew out to Baltimore several weeks ago to do the photography for my niece's wedding. This is one of the shots from an outdoor bridal portrait session. Pentax *istD, A 70-210/4, handheld ISO 200, 1/180 sec @ f/5.6 http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bullock_0109.htm Very interesting photo

Re: [OT]First compact digicam with APS sized CMOS...

> > http://www.dpreview.com/articles/sonydscr1/ > > Interesting, first compact digicamera with sensor (almost) as big > > as in > > DSLRs. Used lens seems to be interesting too :-) Ladies and Gentlemen, can it be that we're actually witnessing the sensor that will be used in successor of *istD? Th

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