PESO: Billionaires and Smugmug maps

Just a couple of semi-related items: Warren Buffet and Bill Gates recently ate a local restaurant when Gates visited town. I snapped these shots of the Restaurant's tongue-in-cheek marquee. Not great art, just a fun snapshot. After you're checked out

Re: Batteries for istDS?

Shel - I have to throw my vote in with the Lithium AAs. On the D, I'm getting about 1000-1200 shots per set of four. A 4-pack is $9.99 at target. The CR-V3's perform better but are as much as twice the price. I seldom use the built-in flash. When I feel the need for flash I use an external f

Re: DS Test Shots 1 & 2

Shel - Which raw converter are you using? gs On 9/3/05, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, i did something like you suggested, and the final results were > better, although for the purpose of putting the images up I wanted to show > them with no adjustments. I was hoping you'd

Re: Am I an Ignorant Klutz ....

Shel - have you tried formatting the card with your pc? I'm willing to believe the Ds has a problem, but I'm more willing to believe you have a bad card. That little switch on the SD cards it pretty tiny. It's the thing I like least about SD cards. See you later, gs On 9/3/05, Shel Belinkof

Re: Optio S40 ???

Hi Marnie - I bought S40's for my kids last Christmas. (What a grandfather will do to get pictures of the grandkids!) The cameras work well and I am being supplied with lots of photos. The camera is well suited to their needs. Lithium AA's last a long time. Photos are relatively well exposed i

Re: Fried Highlights

There are a lot of differences between CS and CS2. Of these there are a few I use often: You can straighten and crop an image in Camera Raw, these changes are non-destructive and are stored in the DNG file. The major camera raw sliders all now have an "auto" setting. For most of the stuff I sho

Re: Fried Highlights

Shel - I bought Elements 3 to get the updated version of Photoshop Album. I don't use the Elements part of it much these days. Here's a link to a screen shot of the single PE3 raw converter screen and five shots showing the CS2 raw converter with each of it's five tabs selected.

Re: Some Posting Suggestions

Replying in general to long URLs... You can include a long URL as long as you surround it with these Most popular mail programs will correctly interrpret anything between the <>'s as a single URL, even if it spans more than one line. See you later, gs

Re: green button wars (again)

JCO - I agree with you in concept. But, in the end, no matter how many folks write to Pentax about their old lenses it's just not going to make any difference. I'm one of the guys with an old screw mount Spotmatic and a few lenses. It served me well from 1968 through 2001 when I bought my 5n.

Re: DS Noise

Just adding my two cents on evaluating noise on the screen vs. prints. I agree with Paul. I've noticed that my ink jet prints show much less noise than I would have been led to believe was there by the screen rendition. I don't know if this is a side effect of the printer's conversion software o

GESO - Blizzard of 2007

We had a pretty good snowstorm today. The weather report said we had just over twelve inches of snow in a few hours. It was complicated by winds that peaked at over fifty miles per hour. This was one of those strange snowstorms that was accompanied by lightning and thunder. Here's a gallery of

Re: GESO - Blizzard of 2007

ve it to the media to exaggerate things all out of proportion. > > BTW, George, where is that? > > -graywolf > > > George Sinos wrote: > > We had a pretty good snowstorm today. The weather report said we had > > just over twelve inches of snow in a few hours. It

Re: SV & TAv, using them?

I think the program lines are a somewhat overlooked feature. -gs- On 3/12/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mainly because I'm used to my old *ist D, I haven't been using > > these yet and > > wonder if you guys are. If yes, what situations make them > > advantageous? > > I've

Film Is Dead

I've been asked by the local community college to teach a class in photography using 35mm film. I've been teaching digital classes for several years. The fellow that taught the film class is unavailable and several people had already signed up, so I was asked to step in. It should be fun. Look

K10d Review on Imaging Resource

An interesting review of the K10d on the Imaging Resource web site. In addition to the traditional list of features and descriptions of knobs, there is a longer term user report that actually provides a little perspective on the design and use of the camera. Whatever you think of the author's comm

Re: PAW: Alexandra and her mom

Amita - This is a great shot and your friend will love it just as it is. It might be fun to experiment with the "lens blur" filter to try blurring the background a bit. You might be able to throw some of the distracting items out of focus. See you later, gs

Re: Simple screwmount lens question

I'm just curious, Alan. Why do you want to do that? GS On 5/14/05, Alan P. Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've got a couple of SM lenses with the little push rod arrangement > for stopping the lens down. Is there a simple solution to keeping it > pushed in when using the lens with a scr

Re: PESO - Sunlight and Shadow

Marnie - I notice you have an aol email address. I don't remember the specifics, but AOL, by default, compresses graphics to speed up response time. You can turn the compression off. My guess is it only kicks in when you're using AOL's built in browser and probably is ignored when you use an ex

Re: PS CS2 ACR was Speaking of exposure....

Responding to the comments on CS2 - I've been working with it this weekend. It's going to be a while before I get a handle on just how much more powerful this program may be. There are a couple features in ACR that haven't been mentioned. One is the crop tool, so you can crop before you do the

Moving to Digital Soon (was "I need a lot of counselling...")

Marnie said: "...considering how many pictures I take (not that many right now), I think I can hold off..." I carried a small point and shoot film camera in my coat pocket or brief case for at least a couple of years. I bought the Optio S just a few months ago. I noticed this morning that, in

*istD output?

OK, I've read through the last few digests and learned all about how the *istD feels, who would like which knobs in different places and so. Don't you guys take pictures with those things? For cryin' out loud, it's not like you have to wait for the processing Here is a link to some early

Ink consumption

Not Pentax, but I thought is may be of interest. I have tracked the ink consumption in my Canon S9000 for a bit over a year. This printer is used primarily for printing photos, but from time to time will be used to print color web pages and a bit of text. The relative consumption of the indivi

Re: Printer resolution (was: Re: posted *istD Samples)

Several people have commented on determining the appropriate image resolution to send to the printer. The Nov/Dec issue of Digital Photo Pro magazine has an interesting article, "MisInformation, Setting Printer DPI." Treading lightly, to avoid violating copyrig

Re: Slide projectors

In a previous message graywolf said "Slide projection has been dying for years. Many slide shows in the past 20 years have been put on video tape and shown on a TV screen." I can remember when every salesman that came to pitch something to our company either brought a slide projector or called a

Re: Got my *isdD today

Kevin Waterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked about the strap on his shiny new *istD "Anyone else notice the *istD strap still has the little plastic buttons with the protrusion that allows for a mid-roll film change/rewind?" I noticed that. I was slightly disappointed that they didn't just use the

Re: another istD issue - image download size

I have a web site where I display photos for family and friends. These folks have a great variety of equipment and connection speeds. For photos I chose a site that would let me easily accommodate everyone with a minimum of set up work by me. You can see my photo pages at

Re: Just curious ... Related questions

Graywolf asked related questions: Related questions: 1. who on the list currently has a darkroom. 2. is it a permanent darkroom, or do you have to set it up each time you use it? 3. do you do B&W, or color, or both? 4. who besides TV has junked their darkroom for digital. I can't believe I actual

Re: out-of-camera white balance

Jerome asked about correcting white balance after the fact. Jerome - The easiest way is to shoot RAW format and correct it in conversion to your desired format. If it's too late for that, try the Color Balance transformation in Picture Window Pro from Digital Light and Color. I've worked with

Re: Just curious ... Related questions

At 10:40 PM 12/27/2003, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Someone said: > > Everything is on the computer now. Can't imagine using the real darkroom > > again. Other than e-bay or a garage sale, what are you guys going with > > your old darkroom equipment? No, everything is not "on the c

Re: Pentax's dSLR future?

On: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:48:20 -0500, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "In its present configuration its still a snapshot camera.", referring to the istD. Paul - I use my istD for snapshots, but it's a heck of a lot more than a snapshot camera. I'm not sure what you meant by the above

Re: Pentax's dSLR future?

Rob Studdert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote that he didn't see the concern about CF card slot or the AA batteries used in the istD. Frankly, I think most of the negative comments that I've read are a testament to the fact that there is not much to complain about on this camera. The CF card tightness

Re: AP liked the *ist 35mm best

On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 22:00:00 + (GMT) Kostas Kavoussanakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "I am open to suggestions for something better. If PC is your style, we could go "disabled-mount". If you like the lack of backwards compatibility, we can try calling them "perfect-mount", "way of the future

Re: Picture Window Pro v Photoshop

Earlier Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked for comments on Picture Window Pro vs. Photoshop 7.0 Shel - I've been using Photoshop and Picture Window Pro for a while now. Both have their pros and cons, but I'm going to make my comments from the viewpoint of a Photoshop user wondering about

Re: Picture Window Pro v Photoshop

Earlier Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote that he had downloaded PWPro 3.1. Shel - PWPro 3.5 added quite a few features. The advanced sharpening was a big one. There were also a lot of improvements to the "browser" that let you compose album pages. I think the "sticky settings" optio

Re: Down off my "high-horse"... with a thump.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/essays/vanRiper/index.htm Here's a link to this week's Washington Post Photography column by Frank Van Ripper. He's responding to another news story where Wedding photographers were called one of the top ten overpaid professions. See you later, gs

Re: Some *istD questions

Earlier Herb Chong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "CS doesn't support PEF format. they are rumored to be supporting in an update..." It's a bit stronger than a rumor. A representative of Adobe said it will be in the next update to the Raw Converter. It's expected sometime in "early 2004". This i

Re: version 1.1

Earlier Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "The main purpose i use the preview screen on my 10D for whilst shooting is to check for blown high lights (they flash black and white)." and Robe Studdart wrote: "It's not a loss of skill, it's a new set of tools." And I think that's the evolution. Firs

Re: Working with adjustment:was Monitor latitude

Just replying to the thread in general. There seems to be a bit of confusion on profiles, color spaces and color management, in general. No surprise. The topic is complex and most of what is written in the popular press doesn't help much. Here are three resources that may help, the first two

Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?

Lots of good answers in this thread. Here's my theory and practice. I back up to more than one type of media, and store the copies in more than one location. All of my files are stored on two different hard drives with two additional copies on DVDs. The DVD sets are stored in two different loca

Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?

And of course, five minutes after I wrote all that I checked the release notes. They just made the formal announcement of all of that stuff here: <http://blogs.smugmug.com/release-notes/> On 4/27/06, George Sinos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lots of good answers in this thre

Re: Life in the Raw

I didn't mean to sound critical of your post Shel. I agree that the proprietary formats are a bad thing for the photographer and photography in general. I'm a big fan of DNG and convert my raw files immediately. There's a couple of reasons. First of all, with Adobe's clout, I think DNG will eve

Re: batteries discharging quickly in *istD

My experience is similar to others. I use the grip, but for my own convenience, I only put batteries in the grip. I get about 800-1200 shots on a set of lithiums. These will last several shooting sessions for me, so I don't feel the need to load two sets of batteries in the camera. I got tired

Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?

Bob - I don't see the time or cost of format conversion as different than the investment I'm making in scanning slides and prints into digital formats. And digital files are much easier and cheaper to convert to new formats than film and paper. Usually these conversions can be performed over a

Re: batteries discharging quickly in *istD

My wallet is glad the istD can take either. The difference in price can be significant. The local Target store prices a two-pack of CRV3s at $14.95 and a four-pack of AA's at $9.99. See you later, gs On 4/30/06, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original

Re: camera club question re: projected image contests

I thought I'd chime in on this one. I just joined a local club in January. Evidently, until this year they used a digital projector, a 35mm slide projector and a third projector for two-and-a-quarter square format slides. This is was in addition to prints. This year the fellow that runs the pro

Re: RAW vs JPEG - The truth is out

Not really replying to Marnie, just tacking on to the thread here - Here's how I explained jpeg/RAW to some fairly non-technical folks. If pictures were brownies, a raw file would be like a grocery sack containing a brownie mix, eggs, water and oil. (or whatever else the mix requires) Within som

Re: iview pro

I just saw over at that ivew was just purchased by Microsoft. It's under "What's New" in "update #2" to the June 27 entry. There's a link to an opinion written by the author of "The DAM book" See you later, gs On 6/26/06, Godfrey D

Re: Coming Soon - A new K-mount Film Camera

Not specifically replying to Paul, just tagging onto the thread here... I've been teaching non-credit photography classes at the local community college for a bit over three years now. The basic class is aimed at family photographers. At first, this class was filled with people trying to figure

Re: Coming Soon - A new K-mount Film Camera

On 7/3/06, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mike, > > > > - IR, UV, X-Ray ... all are easily accessible, specialized cameras > that expand the capabilities are also available. > > > > G > I agree with Godfrey here, but in the case above it's probably fair to point out, that other th

Re: SD 512 memory card

Ann - I just bought an adaptor for about $20 that will let you put an SD card into a CF slot. It looks like a CF card with a slot that accepts the SD card. I have a bunch of CF cards for the istD and all of my other cameras take SD cards. For $20, it seemed like a good idea. See you later, gs <

Re: Film recommendations?

Back when I still shot film I had settled on Kodak's Portra UC. It was touted to have been developed to scan well. My experience with the color was very good. It was one of the few films that did a good job on both skin tones and vivid colors. The brighter colors were well saturated, but not to

GESO - Red, White and Blue Kites

On July 1 - the local kite club held their Red, White and Blue Festival. Here's a link to a few photos from the event: This is a friendly bunch of guys. They had seen the photos I took at last October's event and let me have the run of the field. I go

Re: GESO - Red, White and Blue Kites

I forgot to say these were taken with either the DA 16-45mm or the 50-200mm on the istD. Thanks for the comments. See you later, gs <http://georgesphotos.net> On 7/7/06, George Sinos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On July 1 - the local kite club held their Red, White and Blue Festi

Re: *ist DS versus *ist D for the "Digital Newbie"

ht Recovery in Adobe Camera Raw" by the same author. There are several other interesting white papers on the same page. Here's the link to adobe white papers: <http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/ps_pro_primers.html> See you later, gs -- George Sinos

Re: Camera Raw Question

t you fine tune that profile to match your camera. Fraser describes the calibration method using an image of a Macbeth color chart. Once fine tuned, you can safe these profiles for each of your cameras. Photoshop Elements 3.0 does not have this feature. See you later, gs --

GESO: Fourth of July Photos

Fourth of July was busy. The City of Ralston, Nebraska always celebrates the Fourth in a big way. I've split the photos into two galleries, one for the parade and one for the fireworks. The parade shots were all taken with the DA 16-45 and 50-200 on the istD. Mostly with the former. The firewo

Re: GESO - Red, White and Blue Kites

Thanks, That's my favorite shot of the bunch. See you later, gs On 7/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a message dated 7/7/2006 11:20:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On July 1 - the local kite club held their Red, White

Re: PESO - Pond

Bruce - This is beautiful. It's another one of the images that probably looks much better when printed very large. See you later, gs On 8/2/06, Bruce Dayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of several beaver ponds in the park near my home. > > Pentax *istD, DA 16-45/5

Re: Lens Blur Filter - Photoshop

Russell Brown is one of those guys that has the gift of clearly explaining relatively complex topics. Combine this with his knowledge of Photoshop and you have a guy that can create excellent tutorials His style is a bit odd. He reminds me a bit of a combination of Mr. Rogers and Bill Nye the Sc

Re: Antishake, Pentax style

Bill and all - I had an interesting "Anti-shake" experience last weekend. I've mentioned before that I teach photography classes at the local community college. In the basic class I connect the AV output of a point and shoot camera to the classroom video projector. This allows the group to see

Re: The *ist D sensor and hue

Don - Is this something you can fix in raw conversion? These are the screens from the CS2 raw converter, I was thinking the Calibrate tab (last photo on the page) might be what you're looking for. See you later, gs -- PDML P

Re: DA 100mm f2.8 Macro

Just tagging onto the thread here - not arguing with Paul - I use one of the Stroboframes with flash quite often: With this, or even with a long telephoto I find the wheels much more convenient. When I use the bracket I'm always holdi

Re: Kodachrome processing: Ambiguous press release

I'll go along with that. Last year I scanned a few hundred of my Father's old slides from the late fifties and early sixties. At the same time I scanned a bunch of my stuff from the late sixties and seventies. The Kodachrome looked like it was developed yesterday. Can't say the same about a lot

Re: Testing the K100D and some more K10D hype

After reading the press releases on the new A20 and M20 I have figured out the killer feature that will make him give up his medium format equipment. Wait for it.. "Face Recognition Mode" Sorry, it's a dirty job but someone had to say it. See you later, gs

Nostalgic SD card carrying case

The recent discussion of memory cards prompted me to fill what may be a niche market for carrying cases. I may have a limited number of these nostalgic SD card carrying cases available for sale. Most are the frosted variety with a plain black cap. Some caps have labels printed with the names of

Re: Nostalgic SD card carrying case

m=180018035985&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESO%3AIT&rd=1 > > -Brendan > > --- George Sinos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The recent discussion of memory cards prompted me to > > fill what may be > > a niche market for carrying cases. >

Re: Digital Leica M8?

Reminds me of what happened to watches in the 1970's. See you later, gs On 8/27/06, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Douglas Newman wrote: > > My thoughts exactly. They've replaced the ultra-precise, > very-limited-production, mechanical internals of a Leica wi

Herb Keppler's comments in Photo Reporter

Keppler always has an interesting take on the industry. He's been around long enough to put things into perspective. He's authored this article on the battle for the 10% of the DSLR market not owned by the big two.

Re: OT: Becoming Pentaxian Again

Marnie - Welcome back the fold. Just a little advice if you're trying to save a little cash. After you get the new Pentax camera body, don't try out the DA 50-200 zoom. See you later, gs -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo

Re: Herb Keppler's comments in Photo Reporter

called > Herb. His nickname, to those of us who know him, is Burt. To anyone > else he is Herbert or Mr. Keppler. Show the man some respect. > > Bob > > On Sep 2, 2006, at 1:01 PM, George Sinos wrote: > > > Keppler always has an interesting take on the industry. He'

Re: APS-C sensor $34?!

For the type of work I do, I'm not sure I'd pay a lot more for a full frame body. The 6mp istD has been more than satisfactory so far. The 10mp successor should be better. Thinking down the line, a multi-megapixel FF upgrade will require more memory, more disk space, and everything to support it

Sunrise with DA 21mm

This is rapidly becoming my favorite lens. Here's an example, shot on the way to work yesterday. It was morning, the Sun was on the way up, the mist and fog were hanging over the fields. I pulled off the highway and shot this out the side window of the car. If you have the bandwidth, check the

GESO - Hot Air Balloon Festival

At the end of August I attended the Lighter than Air Balloon Fair sponsored by the Iowa Western Community College. The Nebraska Balloon Club and several others put on a great show. I was there for about three hours on Saturday evening and filled several memory cards. This gallery contains some o

Re: GESO - Hot Air Balloon Festival

re was the Fair held? I spent a lot of time in Iowa and Nebraska > many years back. > > Thanks for the look! > > Jack > > --- George Sinos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At the end of August I attended the Lighter than Air Balloon Fair > > sponsored by th

Re: GESO - Hot Air Balloon Festival

trate the > event. I was waiting for a shot from one of the balloons ! > > If you've never been up in one you should really do it - a unique > experience. > > Kenneth Waller > > - Original Message - > From: "George Sinos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: Survey Time: K10D

My local dealer has my order. On 9/10/06, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a slow morning @ Casa Belinkoff, so I thought I'd toss this out to the > list: > > Who is definitely buying a K10D as soon as it hits the stores? > > Who will probably buy a K10D based on reviews and comment

Re: Lack of AA Battery Power - they don't have a choice

My memory is a bit foggy on this subject, but isn't Samsung one of the big battery suppliers? On 9/15/06, Cory Papenfuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >There have been complaints about lack of AA battery power, and many felt > > >abandoned by Pentax engineers. But in fact, I don't think they hav

Re: Ordered a K10D

Body and Vertical Grip from the only remaining local camera store. gs On 9/16/06, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I now personally know three people who have actually ordered a K10D, at > least one of which ordered some accessories and a lens along with it. Just > curious who else ma

Re: OT: Lost and found CF card

Shamless repost of previous photo - See you later, gs On 9/17/06, Bob Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jens, > Too bad you use CFcards. I have a handy SD card holder that I never loose

Re: Ordered a K10D

Or, as they say on the home improvement shows, pre-drilling a pilot hole for a screw. gs On 9/17/06, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Shel Belinkoff > > Sent: 17 Septem

My K10D will be free

I knew you guys couldn't resist that subject line. Back when we were all trying to rationalize paying for our istD or variant I built a little spreadsheet to calculate how much money I saved every time I punched the shutter button on the D. It was relatively simple, based on the cost of film, pro

Re: Imprint Time/Date on DS Pics

Shel - It may be worth checking the manual for the details of the DPOF function in the camera. I'm not sure if it's practical or a solution to your problem. GS On 9/25/06, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't find a way to imprint the time/date on images made with the DS. Is >

Re: Bit selection for Pentax RAW file?

A number of people have commented on 16 or 8 bits with respect to RAW file conversion: The current issue of Photo Techniques Magazine has an excellent article written by Norman Koren on getting the most from a RAW file. While the article is not available on line, here is a link to the magazine

Re: Reichman and DXO

I get a kick out of Reichman. I think he's a nice balance to the technical review sites. A few months ago I subscribed to the dvd's. He has an assignment competition on each dvd where the prize is a free one year subscription renewal. On a whim, I submitted this photo for the assignment theme

Re: Image stacker and *ist D

or are you using the image stacker in Picture Window Pro? See you later, gs ---------- George Sinos Papillion, NE e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://georgesoptions.net Photos: http://georgesphotos.net --

Re: Holga

Several posts on the Holga peeked out from between all the weird messages of the day. It's probably only a coincidence that I was looking at this web site today: http://www.lensbabies.com/ Somewhere on the site they say that a pentax mount will be available in the next week or so. I don't know

Re: Darkroom or Digital for beginners

Earlier Kevin Waterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked if there was a compelling argument that would sway his child's principle to teach photography using a darkroom. Kevin - Regardless of our many opinions and experiences with in the darkroom, I think you are wasting your time, and missing a chance

GESO - Local Memorial

During the week of September 11, 2006 the owners of the Woodman Tower in Omaha, Nebraska created a memorial to those lost in the destruction of the World Trade Center. Flags were displayed on the East and West Faces of the building and spotlights projected twin beams into the sky. The display end

Re: Exposure with Polarizer

Doug - are they truly darker or are the colors more saturated? The increased saturation from the polarizer could make them seem darker. See you later, gs On 10/8/06, Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy, folks, > > I'm still in the process of culling and po

Re: PESO: Harvest Moon

Shel - I think we fundamentally agree on the impact of the subject, but having tried to get a similar shot (and failed) I have to compiment John's technical skills. It seems I've never had the right combination of location, weather and available time to get a good clean shot. See you later, gs <

Re: k10d and manual-aperture lenses?

JCO - I guessing that your frustration is the basis for the strong "idiots" statement. Frankly, I don't see a lot of difference between program, Av, and Tv. I see it as a "choose the type of convenience that works for you." See you later, gs On 10/8/06, J. C. O'Connell

Re: k10d and manual-aperture lenses?

JCO - I think I finally get what you're saying. It's the open aperature meetering. I guess coming from the old screw-mount, stop-down meeting paradigm, even though I've had a couple of more recent auto-bodies, the open-aperture part never registered in my mind. See you later, gs

Re: k10d and manual-aperture lenses?

are not controlling > DOF like you are by choosing the aperture setting. BIG > KEY DIFFERENCE. > jco > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > George Sinos > Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 1:05 PM > To: Pentax-D

Re: The JCO survey

If Pentax can add the feature without any compromise to newer more useful features, without adding anything to the weight, size or power consumption, and without adding anything to the cost, it's OK with me. Just for fun, take a look at this article from Jakob Nielson, the web design guru:

Re: K1D aperature simulator survey, part Deaux

Since I said that it would be desireable only if it didn't raise the cost, weight or displace other more useful features I'd actually have to say "no" to highly desireable. GS -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: The JCO survey

It might just depend on where you hang out. About eighty to ninety percent of the people taking my community ed. classes are women. Most are mothers in their mid-twenties to mid-forties. The series of classes that just ended, for example was made up of eight women and one retired guy. He had a

Re: Your first camera

Just tagging into the thread here with a couple of comments. First camera was a 620 Kodak Brownie. Birthday present from the parents. When I showed some interest my father let me use his Argus C3. My next camera was a screw mount Spotmatic that I used until just a few years ago. When the kids

Re: Compact point and shoots - Optio A20?

Jaume - I've had an A10 since January. This is the camera that's always in my pocket, briefcase or glove compartment and it works great. Is it the fastest camera on the market? Probably not. I certainly do not experience the poor performance that has been mentioned in the reviews. One thing n

Re: Compact point and shoots - Optio A20?

Jaume - I forgot to mention something that I think is important. If you use point and shoot cameras as they come out of the box, they are meant to do as much thinking for you as possible. This takes time and makes the cameras slower than they need to be. My A10 is set to Spot focus. I use the

Post firmware control changes are interesting

I've been playing with the new control options after installing the firmware upgrade. I assigned ISO to the unused dials in Av and Tv mode. It's interesting, watching the shutter speed, aperture and ISO displays in the viewfinder while adjusting the dials. This certainly changes things, doesn't

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