Re: PSD - portable storage devices?

The SmartDisk FlashTrax supports viewing Pentax PEF files: http://smartdisk.com/eWeb/smartdiskus/www/staticpages/flashtrax.asp

Re: Scary photoshopping

Meaning the photog just blew a few hundred dollars (or passed it on to the client) to make up for poor lighting. For that price he/she could have bought better lights. And still charged a few more dollars. :-) --jc On Aug 30, 2005, at 12:38 PM, John Francis wrote: That was my first impres

Re: OT: Once is not enough

On Friday, Aug 29, 2003, at 11:24 US/Eastern, Herb Chong wrote: the failing drive died during the backup operation, taking my backup with it since the read failed and the clone operation failed as a result. What a coincidence Herb...my primary drive failed during a backup two days ago. And the l

Re: OT: monitor recommendations

On Saturday, September 27, 2003, at 01:28 PM, Frantisek Vlcek wrote: the most recognised brands in graphic arts are Eizo and even more Barco. They are the very best but at the very best price :( The Barco models even had automatic selfcalibration. BTW, on the monitor it doesn't pay to save mon

Re: *ist D

On Saturday, September 27, 2003, at 02:09 PM, J. C. O'Connell wrote: Kodak has a 16 Mp sensor for 645 cameras now but it is only 36X36mm which is only 50% bigger than full frame 35mm and it costs $16K at this point for just a back, no camera. The back with the largest sensor is now the Sinarback 5

Re: Where are the ist-D''s?

On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 07:53 AM, Stan Halpin wrote: U.S. ? Seattle? New York? I would appreciate any reliable information that might substantiate or supplement the above. I received email notification from B&H in New York that the *ist-D was in stock. But when I went to the store th

Re: Digital B+W printing (was: Re: My first *istD question(s)

On Monday, Oct 6, 2003, at 14:49 America/New_York, Cotty wrote: Pass. Isn't there a company called Lyson or something that specialises in blacks for printers? See http://www.lyson.com/products/smallgamutframe.html This is a framed web site, so if you want the navigation menu, you have to go to

Re: Old lenses and *ist D

On 7/10/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: The mechanical aperture ring is a thing of the past. A continuously variable, microprocessor operated aperture control is a much more desirable form of adjustment. You can compensate for focal-length/aperture variations much more accurately this way. I'd

Re: Has Pentax missed again?

On Thursday, Oct 9, 2003, at 20:43 America/New_York, Joseph Tainter wrote: The issue is gaining market share. Newcomers are more frequently swayed by price. It is not until they are more experienced that they realize they will need those extra-cost features. Newcomers will buy this Canon, not

Re: Film for the future

On Friday, Oct 10, 2003, at 09:27 America/New_York, Mark Stringer wrote: Since Kodak has been changing emulsions and packaging lately, and announcing a shift into digital, printers etc away from film products, what company do you think will have a long term commitment and consistency to their f

Re: Has Pentax missed again?

On Friday, Oct 10, 2003, at 13:34 America/New_York, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pentax, Minolta, and Olympus aren't playing the cutting-edge-pro-technology game because at this point Nikon and Canon have a huge lead. imho, Olympus is going one further by playing the bleeding edge pro game. And they

Re: *istD vs. Digital Rebel

On Monday, Oct 13, 2003, at 02:31 America/New_York, Rob Studdert wrote: Could also be an IT8.7/2 calibrated colour target too. We used a Kodak Q13 chart in the PhaseOne training course. But then again, this is a US$14,000 digicam with no auto white balance. :-) Note: we used a Q13 rather than a

Re: Has Pentax missed again?

On Friday, Oct 10, 2003, at 19:28 America/New_York, Alan Chan wrote: Don't forget Canon took everyone by surprise with their Rebel Digital which was released later. Perhaps Pentax knew that. But if not, Pentax didn't choose not to compete with it, but forced not to. There is a big difference. I

Re: Graveyard

On Wednesday, Oct 15, 2003, at 11:20 America/New_York, Kevin Waterson wrote: I am off to the local graveyard with some models for a night shoot. ...Any tips etc for this sort of thing? You might need a fog/smoke machine. --jc

Re: feature for digital camera

On Tuesday, Oct 14, 2003, at 07:09 America/New_York, arnie wrote: looking forward to when i can get my hands on an ist D - no stores in nyc seem to carry it. whats up with that? As of yesterday, It's in stock at J&R. --jc

Re: correct exposure

On Wednesday, Oct 15, 2003, at 04:35 America/New_York, Anthony Farr wrote: Studio lighting has been associated with weddings for a very long time. When I shoot a wedding, I lug my Speedotrons along, wishing they weren't so heavy and bulky. :-) --jc

Street price of *ist-D kit?

A few days ago, someone posted this URL to Hunt's listing for the *ist-D kit: http://commerce5.pair.com/hunts/Merchant/ merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=HPAV&Product_Code=2707507661&Category _Code=PENTAXDIGCAM If I read the description correctly, the price of the kit is US$1,699, which is

Re: Pentax 6x7 and rain

On Sunday, Oct 19, 2003, at 22:12 America/New_York, Bucky wrote: How about the *ist D? Kinda makes me cringe to think about it... Well, I looked all over the *ist D and couldn't find the "Water resistant to 50 metres" marking on the body. None on the FAJ 18-35 either, although that one is mostl

Re: film vs digital (was *ist D makes me cringe (was Pentax 6x7 in the rain))

On Monday, Oct 20, 2003, at 23:02 America/New_York, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, William Robb wrote: From: "Pat White" As film sales volumes go down, there will be less incentive for companies to put R&D money into the medium, especially when they need to be putting it into se

Re: film vs digital (was *ist D makes me cringe (was Pentax 6x7 in the rain))

On Monday, Oct 20, 2003, at 16:16 America/New_York, Pat White wrote: Who knows what films will be out in five years? Medium-grained 3200-speed, ultrafine-grained 400-speed? I'm keeping my film cameras. My guess is that by that time, they'll have figured out how to imprint an array of sensors on

Re: SMC-A lens and *istD use

On Tuesday, Oct 21, 2003, at 10:59 America/New_York, alex wetmore wrote: The *ist D does Hypermanual too and it works exactly in this manner. Yup. Because parts of it operate so similarly to my PZ-1p, I can pretty much use the *ist-D out-of-the-box without having to read the manual. --jc

Re: *ist D: Enabled!

On Tuesday, Oct 21, 2003, at 23:30 America/New_York, Bucky wrote: That's a total of 18 batteries to keep everything running. I now have 5 chargers and 20-some NiMH AAs. Ouch! It's time they started making chargers that take more batteries. btw, you might want to look into a battery pack. --jc

Re: *istD @ 3200

On Tuesday, Oct 21, 2003, at 19:17 America/New_York, Bill Owens wrote: Looks like you're as impressed as I am at the results at 3200. And the beauty of it is, next shot, spin the dial for a different ISO without changing film. Takes every bit of 5 seconds to do it. It would have been even faster

Re: Flash on *istD

Here are the readouts for the FAJ 18-35mm and a AF500FTZ: Lens says Flash says 18mm24mm 24mm35mm 28mm35mm 35mm50mm

Re: *ist D shutter delay?

On Wednesday, Oct 22, 2003, at 19:55 America/New_York, Dave Miers wrote: It would really be better for my wallet if this camera had more malfunctions. Well, sometimes it hangs and you have to reboot. But so does my Olympus. And some computers...don't drag me into an OS war, please! --jc

Re: *istD output?

On Sunday, Oct 26, 2003, at 14:05 America/New_York, George Sinos wrote: Has anyone, sent an email to the makers of Capture One , encouraging them to add the *istD to supported cameras for their raw conversion software? They've said they are watching the market to deter

Re: *istD output?

On Sunday, Oct 26, 2003, at 14:05 America/New_York, George Sinos wrote: What's your opinion on the Pentax Photo Browser and Photo Laboratory software? Photo Browser is adequate, but that's not my primary browser software. Photo Lab could be much better. They should look at Capture One as an exa

Re: Photo plus show

On Friday, Oct 31, 2003, at 21:34 America/New_York, tom wrote: -Original Message- From: Butch Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The person I spoke to listed a half dozen other cameras that would get it first, and doubted that Pentax would have enough market share to make it worthwhile for t

Re: Digital Back for 645Nii?

On Wednesday, Nov 5, 2003, at 17:21 America/New_York, Mark Erickson wrote: All, Check out this posting over at photo.net: http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=006R06 I think even at US$6,000 it would be considered a steal if it is comparable with something like a PhaseOne H20. -

Re: My Evening With Lexar

On Thursday, Nov 6, 2003, at 11:35 America/New_York, Joseph Tainter wrote: Along with the starkistdee I bought a Lexar 1 GB 40X compact card, which comes with its own USB reader. Therein lies a tale. I wanted to know how much speed-up I would get from using a WA-enabled Lexar card in the *ist-D

Re: Hot pixels

On Monday, Nov 10, 2003, at 13:44 America/New_York, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh, what are hot pixels? Defects in the sensor? Hot pixels are sensor elements that got more excited than they should have. They usually show up as excessive noise during long exposures. The key to knowing whether it's

Re: Software for ist D Camera

On Tuesday, Nov 18, 2003, at 10:18 America/New_York, Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote: Not only OS X, but it also works under Mac OS 9.x too - that's nice ;-) Whoops! Sorry, I mis-typed. The box specs says you need Mac OS X 10.1.3 and up, or Mac OS 9.0 and up with CarbonLib 1.5 or later installed. Soun

Re: FaJ 18-35mm on film

On Tuesday, Nov 18, 2003, at 10:33 America/New_York, Joe Wilensky wrote: Very light, but not as "loose" feeling as some FA zooms like the 28-70mm f/4. Agree. The focus ring also has a good feel. Not too "loose" like the earlier FA zooms. --jc

Re: Breezbrowser

On Tuesday, Nov 18, 2003, at 13:36 America/New_York, Cotty wrote: I looked at the Breezebrowser site: and was somewhat surprised that I could find no information of what platforms this software runs on. I presume that it is PC only? It looks lik

Re: *ist-D image transfer speeds

On Friday, Nov 21, 2003, at 03:10 America/New_York, David Mann wrote: I seem to recall that one of the slower USB versions was renamed to USB 2.0 or something like that to make it more marketable when the higher speed USB 2 came out. I think one is called "fast USB2" and the other "high-speed USB

Re: Smithsonian contest (was: Defining "previously Published" for a photo contest)

On Saturday, Nov 22, 2003, at 16:01 America/New_York, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Ryan, nice to know they are letting you in... I'm wondering if they will be seeing tons of Pentaxes in this contest! That's up to all of us, Ann! --jc

Re: B on *ist-D

On Saturday, Nov 22, 2003, at 18:37 America/New_York, Herb Chong wrote: i tried a 30 second exposure of the inside of a lens cap and i can see only one obvious hot pixel. i haven't looked all that hard yet though, and i do have the noise reduction turned on. If you're looking for hot pixels, you

Re: TTL Slave Flash, corded and on bracket?

On Sunday, Nov 23, 2003, at 05:28 America/New_York, Greg Lovern wrote: I'd like to mount a second flash on a simple bracket, link the two flashes with a short cord, and have the second flash both fire and stop when the primary flash (either in TTL mode, or in one of its auto modes) fires and stop

Re: B on *ist-D

On Sunday, Nov 23, 2003, at 15:56 America/New_York, Herb Chong wrote: if it doesn't show up after NR is engaged then i don't have to do anything. so what i care about is what shows up after NR is enabled. those are the one i have to do something about in PS. That's true. It depends if you're try

Re: How many musicians? was Re: where are you ? and digital vs film

On Saturday, Nov 29, 2003, at 07:23 America/New_York, Bill Owens wrote: This brings a question to my feeble mind. How many musicians do we have here on the list? Baritone. http://www.nychoral.org The keyboard skills are rusty. So's the piano. :-) --jc

Re: card storage in the field

On Thursday, Dec 4, 2003, at 06:41 America/New_York, Herb Chong wrote: there have been a few articles out now that basically say that digital cameras, once you keep good battery warming habits, are better for very cold weather shooting than film cameras because you don't have to worry about film

Re: card storage in the field

On Thursday, Dec 4, 2003, at 06:42 America/New_York, Herb Chong wrote: i have one too. it doesn't hold enough cards and is larger than a soft case. I use a small Hakuba holder with a clamshell design. Each half of the clamshell holds a CF card (or other media depending on model) and there's a l

Re: Coming to terms with *ist D lens mag factor?

On Monday, Dec 8, 2003, at 02:09 America/New_York, Rob Studdert wrote: So how are *ist D users coping with the lens mag factors and are some lenses now less useful than they were on film bodies? More or less transparently. I don't even think about the mag factor at all when I shoot. Over time, I

Re: WEBSITE freak out - HELP!!!!!

On Monday, Dec 8, 2003, at 21:00 America/New_York, Tanya Mayer Photography wrote: Omg, sorry guys i know that this is totally OT, BUT I was just chatting with #7 via AIM, and we were looking at my website, when I realised that all of my text has shrivelled up! No kidding! Usually, it is large,

Re: WEBSITE freak out - HELP!!!!!

On Tuesday, Dec 9, 2003, at 00:28 America/New_York, Doug Franklin wrote: The browser will usually collapse multiple white space characters in a sequence down to a single one when it renders the page. That's true. I forgot about that. I was so busy looking at the source code (where I noticed the d

Re: Coming to terms with *ist D lens mag factor?

On Thursday, Dec 11, 2003, at 00:02 America/New_York, Mark Cassino wrote: The stock agency I work with wants 35 meg files minimum, so I anticipate that I will shoot film in tandem with the *ist D, just to keep them happy. You're almost there. A TIFF file converted from an *ist-D RAW file is 34

Re: *istD cheaper again

On Thursday, Dec 11, 2003, at 15:54 America/New_York, Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote: Now only 1299$ at buydig.com - very reputable seller. Who bets 1199$ just before Christmas? ;-) Could be Pentax's strategy of competing in the under-$1000 DSLR market. Instead of coming out with a cheaper model, jus

Re: Cameron this will tickle you

On Tuesday, Dec 16, 2003, at 13:15 America/New_York, John Francis wrote: Exactly my feelings when I saw the original posting. You know what they say about who blames the tools ... I don't see anything in the article that blamed the tools. They blamed it on an over-reliance of PowerPoint presentat

Re: Color correction software

On Tuesday, Dec 16, 2003, at 16:46 America/New_York, Andre Langevin wrote: Are there any Photoshop plug-ins to correct color balance due to a difference between color temperatures of film & lighting. For example 2700 oK (bulbs) to 5500 oK (film). I read that PhotoShop CS comes with this capabi

Re: OT:Inkjet printer recommendations

On Thursday, Dec 18, 2003, at 00:44 America/New_York, Ann Sanfedele wrote: I thought I tried that once and couldnt get it to clean. hmmm. When you put in an ink cartridge, it has to prime the cartridge by doing something similar to a head cleaning. That's why it makes the same groaning noises.

Re: Fuji Frontier Lab (was Lousy Printing)

On Saturday, Dec 20, 2003, at 13:57 America/New_York, John Francis wrote: The printers have little LCD screens so you can scroll through the images on the card (or in the camera) and pick which one (or ones) to print. You can even do some level of cropping and resizing. I also like the new HP pr

Re: Need photo printer recommendation

On Thursday, Dec 18, 2003, at 20:47 America/New_York, Kenneth Waller wrote: I've heard & read about the metamerism issue. ... My recent experience with the 2000P indicates this may not be as big an issue as noted. I have a 2000P also and I agree with Kenneth that with the right printer driver, t

Re: Pentax starts to develop their own CMOS...

On Saturday, Dec 27, 2003, at 07:55 Asia/Singapore, Alan Chan wrote: Get translated here: http://www.excite.co.jp/world/url/ Interesting translation! "...A pen tack also aims at competitive power strengthening, and plunges into the technical research of CMOS. " --jc

Re: a small feather in my cap - yes, I used a Pentax

On Monday, Dec 29, 2003, at 23:43 Asia/Singapore, Ann Sanfedele wrote: After coming home from a miserable showing at a weekend long Scrabble tournament, (yeah, yeah, I had fun anyway:) ) ... I got an email from documentary film maker Eric Chaikin that 5 of my stills of Scrabble champs will be us

Re: Epson 1640 SUP scanner prob ?

On Sunday, Jan 4, 2004, at 01:27 Asia/Singapore, Ann Sanfedele wrote: scanning color Kodak 100 gold negs - arrrggh! I have a 1640SU Photo also, and I find that you need to do massive color correction when scanning color negatives. I think that's the norm with "primitive" equipment. When I use my

Re: Singapore? (Very long: A reasonably detailed walkthrough..)

On Wednesday, Jan 7, 2004, at 17:08 America/New_York, Stan Halpin wrote: Ryan - thanks for the detailed reply! Rob, Bob, thanks also. All good information which I hope to have a chance to put to use. I am going (probably) for a three-day meeting, may get one day on front end, one day after the

Re: Blue skies...

On Wednesday, Jan 7, 2004, at 20:10 America/New_York, Tanya Mayer Photography wrote: I will be completing the shoot (not the wedding, but the one where the client has requested the blue skies etc) digitally, so I would also love to know if anyone else has had any success achieving this result d

Re: Singapore? (Very long: A reasonably detailed walkthrough..)

About humidity and heat... Expect day time temperatures in the eighties or nineties Fahrenheit. Humidity is around the 70% to 90% range. Frequently, there'll be a mid-afternoon thunderstorm to cool off the evening. Umbrellas are pretty much useless ... be prepared to protect your gear. In the c

Re: Monitor latitude

On Thursday, Jan 8, 2004, at 18:35 America/New_York, mapson wrote: calibrating all monitors in the world is a project beyond my wildest dreams. Sir Tony Hoare should have listed that as one of his Grand Challenges. --jc

Re: Singapore? (Very long: A reasonably detailed walkthrough..)

On Thursday, Jan 8, 2004, at 21:06 America/New_York, Stan Halpin wrote: I am disappointed to hear that I have to look out for pickpockets (which also influences how much camera gear I carry and how I carry it.) I had thought Singapore was, if anything, too law abiding. The locals will tell you t

Re: Singapore? (Very long: A reasonably detailed walkthrough..)

On Friday, Jan 9, 2004, at 10:51 America/New_York, Ryan Lee wrote: I understand it was probably meant as friendly concern, but given the way it was slipped in, I thought you made it sound like it was a problem specific to Singapore when it's not, really. Ryan, it was never meant to sound like a

Re: OT ideas, Gianfranco Irlanda

On Thursday, Jan 15, 2004, at 11:00 America/New_York, graywolf wrote: Yes, I guess someone somewhere is making a WiFi Satellite Phone that you could send the stuff out directly with. But in today's world you may be looking a smart bomb down your neck if you did that. But I would guess that the

Re: Aperture

On Apr 27, 2006, at 10:09 AM, Derby Chang wrote: I'm not terribly interested in mac software, since I don't use it. But I am interested in design processes and quality controls as a part of my day job. I think someone at Apple took their eye off the ball with Aperture. You can learn a lot

Re: OT: Heard from ERNR

I've taken to reading PDML like an old stack of magazines. I keep one mail window minimized, pointing to my PDML mail folder. Whenever I have some free time (rare nowadays) I bring it up and read a few threads. Right now, it says I've got 63,747 messages in it, 45,426 unread. Depending on ho

Re: PhotoPlus Expo in NYC

On Oct 22, 2004, at 6:08 PM, Amita Guha wrote: I went to the Nikon booth to check out the Coolwalker, their image tank. ...I really liked it, but of course it can't read RAW thumbnails from anything besides Nikons, which is a shame. Also, it was a little big, which I could have lived with under o

Re: PDF Slide Show

On Oct 9, 2004, at 2:20 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: After creating to PDF file in PS CS and saving it to disk, I am able to click on the file name and the slide show starts running automatically. However, it comes up as a full screen presentation in Acrobat 6.0. By using the Ctrl and "-" keys, the i

Re: OT: Brochure paper for Epson???

On Nov 6, 2004, at 4:05 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: I have an 820 -- want to print double sided brochure paper -- It seems not to be made by Epson. Ann, you might be looking for the double-sided matte paper (S041568): http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/ProductMediaSpec.jsp? BV_UseBVCookie=yes&infoTyp

Re: fill flash problems on the *istD

On Nov 7, 2004, at 5:46 AM, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Jens Bladt wrote: And - BTW - don't use F3.5 for portraits. Use F5.6 or better. I had not heard of this before. I thought you shoot portraits as open as possible. That depends on the kind of portrait you're going for. At f/

Re: database software

Try PhotoMesa: http://www.windsorinterfaces.com/photomesa.shtml It's not really a database, it's still somewhat buggy and it'll only read GIF, JPEG and PNG files. But it's great to see every single one of your photos (in those formats) on your display and zoom in for a closer look. --jc

Re: Epson Printer (Sylus Photo)

I used to have an Epson Stylus Photo EX, which was the wide-carriage version of the Stylus Photo. I never had any problems pulling an ink cartridge out of it and putting it back, especially since it used the "dumb" cartridges (the ones without a chip). I eventually sent it back to Epson Recycli

Re: PESO: 'Twas the day after Thanksgiving....

Cotty, Would it work if you cover the windows with sheets of warming filters? --jc On Nov 27, 2004, at 4:26 AM, Cotty wrote: Interesting. You have come across a classic mixed lighting situation and balanced the picture entirely for tungsten. I daily shoot pics for the news in such scenarios (minus

Re: Aperture

Aperture is Universal Binary as of version 1.1.2. The MacBook Pro and Intel-based iMacs are now officially supported. --jc On Jul 23, 2006, at 8:26 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > The only officially unsuported systems Aperture is usable on are the > MacBook's and Intel Core Duo Mini's. These do not r

Re: hack for aperture and iphoto

Aperture supports the *ist-D but I performed the same hack to import ORF images from the Olympus C-5050Z. Do you know where I can find out more about the parameters defined in the Raw.plist file? --jc On Jul 27, 2006, at 4:08 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Mac OS X users with Pentax *ist D

Re: Another Blow Against Photography

This message on the TSA web site says laptop computers, cell phones and other electronic items are still permitted. Taking them with you on the flight back could be a problem though: http://tsa-7.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/tsa.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php? p_faqid=254&p_created=1155227254&p_sid=1WOa

Re: Another PDML Win

Paul, Congratulations!!! On Aug 16, 2006, at 11:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I won the Detroit News Photo Contest for week 8 in the landmarks > category. This is the same contest that Ken Waller won a few weeks > ago. I learned of the contest through Ken's post. My winning entry > is t

Re: Printer Recommendations?

I've gone through several Epson printers over the years and here are some observations: - The "pro" models tend to clog less than the "consumer" models --- it could just mean that the pigment-based inks clog less than the dye- based ink. My 2200 *might* clog if I leave it turned off for a mon

Re: OT: Taking Candy from a baby.

On Sep 7, 2006, at 8:55 AM, Bob Shell wrote: > What bothers me most is that these kids will have negative feelings > about photographers for the rest of their lives. Do grown-ups have negative feelings about doctors for the rest of their lives? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.n

OT: NYC Brooklyn baseball photo op on Saturday April 17

I know this is really short notice, but some of you in the NYC area might be interested in coming to see the opening day parade of the Inner City Sports Youth baseball league on Saturday April 17 at around 11am. I'll be part of the group from the New York Choral Society singing The Star-Spangl

Re: Bit selection for Pentax RAW file?

On Friday, Apr 16, 2004, at 21:13 America/New_York, Ramesh Kumar wrote: I am using Adobe7 to convert PEF files into TIFF. During this conversion, I think, I should select 16bit. Am I right? You should select 16 bits if you want the best quality. However the TIFF files will also be large, so

Re: OT: My New Photography Class

On Saturday, Apr 17, 2004, at 04:43 America/New_York, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am taking a short-term new photography class. New to me, that is. Studio portrait lighting with a good local photographer. Not adult ed in this case. A local rental darkroom place that also offers classes with var

OT: I have Apple Store discount coupons

ou what to do. First come first served. Juey Chong Ong Apple Authorized Business Agent Store: http://agents.apple.com/store (enter Agent ID: AA071383 at checkout) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: OT: some Digital SLR comments

On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 07:54 AM, Heiko Hamann wrote: ACK. I don't know why those pieces have to be so complicated. Maybe they think that customers will equate more buttons with more technology... Product designers tend to face two opposing demands: one is that the new product must be bet

Re: Value/Pricing Info

Try eBay (http://www.ebay.com) and KEH (http://www.keh.com) --jc On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 10:25 PM, Stuart Hayes wrote: Howdy Folks, Could somebody give me an estimate on the value of the following or point me to a good location to look it up. As I know the source this will be well mainta

Re: Jobless no more

On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 01:05 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: It is mainly writing C++ though. Though one day I hope to understand at least a little about future exchange and trading in general. Easy...just pay a visit to the mosh pit. :-) --jc

Re: Image Management

On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 11:38 AM, Herb Chong wrote: i've downloaded the evaluation version and i am playing with it. the crucial thing for me is how well it can publish to the web. i'll use whatever software i can to manage a searchable web portfolio for selling stock images. Cumulus does

Re: Digital vs. film cave test

On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 02:13 PM, Caveman wrote: The digital projector is one of the finest available, it costs over $4000 canuck... That's cheap for a digital projector. --jc

Re: OT CF card reader (was: Re: The *ist camera)

Who uses a Mac and a USB CF card reader. One that they're happy with, of course. I"m in the market, and prefer to not believe all the hype. I use two: a Kingston multi-card reader that takes CF, Smartmedia, SD, etc. It has two slots, one for CF and the other shared among the other form factors.

Re: Pentax announced development of digital medium format

On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 09:21 AM, Steve Desjardins wrote: At about $10K or more, digital MF backs will have to come down quite a bit for them to be appealing to me. The Leaf C-most was under US$10K over a year ago. With full-frame 645 backs coming out, I think prices of the non-full-frame b

Re: digital backs (was Re: Leica R9/R8 digital back.)

On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 10:06 PM, Anthony Farr wrote: Interesting. Do you know how the backs are controlled? My guess would be that either they use X-synch from the lens to signal the back when capture should commence, or they totally bypass the shutter system of the camera and use th

Re: Digital vs. film again (was Re: I Am Pissed!)

On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 02:27 PM, Bruce Rubenstein wrote: He knows everything. He read it in the spec sheet. LOL!!!

Re: Leica R9/R8 digital back

On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 06:34 PM, Peter Alling wrote: I've never seen a ruggedized Mac, http://online.sfsu.edu/~hl/c.Tempest.Mac.html http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,57961,00.html http://digitaltigers.com/flyingtiger.shtml http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,51670,00.html

Re: I Am Pissed!

On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 03:30 PM, Len Paris wrote: Not really. Even with film you only make proofs of the best stuff, so they still can't tell whether you've disposed of something. There are wedding photographers who give a set of contact sheets instead of proofs. I guess they don't hide

Re: translation, Re: WOOHOOO!!!!

On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 11:15 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Tonghang Zhou wrote: The top 10 characters in big fonts: Should (we) go out for a dragon dance tour, or should (we) fire up the firecrackers? I think Tonghang meant to say lion dance, but the lions and dragons typically

Optio S sells well

My friend just bought an Optio S. The salesperson told her that they expected to sell out their stock of 120 cameras within a week. Not surprising because after her husband saw it, he wanted one too! --jc

Re: OT usefilm.com and Macs

No problem on my Mac using Safari. --jc On Saturday, July 19, 2003, at 02:47 PM, Butch Black wrote: Does anyone know if usefilm.com has trouble being accessed by Macs? I e-mailed a URL to a friend who uses a Mac and she couldn't access the image, but could read the text. the URL is; http://www.

Re: bad experience with Kodak lab

Ramesh: It's hard to say whether the damage to the slide film occurred in-camera or at the lab. I had a camera that did scratch film, but thank goodness, it leaves the scratch near the sprockets and not in the imaged area. The print film is suspect. The green areas sound to me like areas which

Re: Tough times in Rochester

On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 04:35 AM, Alek Kozak wrote: But I have seen photos taking with Nikkor 105/2.8 micro lens about 50x70cm made using enlarger and wonder if you could receive such format of the same quality based on your even Canon 1Ds. Burrell Labs has been showing 20"x30" (50.8cm x 76

Re: Pentax goes to war?

There was extensive discussion on comp.risks. See some: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/19.91.html#subj7 http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/19.86.html#subj1 T Rittenhouse wrote: Your post reminds me of that ship that went amuck when MS Windows crashed in the auto pilot computer. Why the Navy would us

Re: DC PDML #9

On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 01:21 PM, Cesar Matamoros II wrote: -- > Tom, you were missed (as were all the locals and otherwise -- who couldn't make I miss Hard Times Cafe. :-( --jc

Re: *ist-D official picture samples!

On Saturday, August 9, 2003, at 04:06 AM, Alan Chan wrote: I wonder if there is any reason not to produce ISO 100 or 50? Could it be that the data captured at ISO 50 or 100 is no better than at ISO 200? --jc

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