Re: Enablement: smc-Takumar 50mm f/4 macro w/ extension tubes

I know what you mean about the 70-300 AF focusing. The manual focus version, alas, no longer made, was not nearly as bad mechanically. My MF version has developed some creep, though Mike Hamilton wrote: > All I can say is "wow". This is my first Takumar, and I'm simply > amazed at the build qua

Re: Wide Angle Lens Recommendations?

I only own one 20mm. It's a Spiratone Pleura-Coat f2.8 with "A" setting. I've never a) shot into the sun or b) taken architectural shots. For other stuff, it pleases me. It can be had cheap. $100 or less. gfen wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Patrick Wunsch wrote: I am looking for a decent wide ang

Re: Why is it...

Cameron, jeeze, it's so simple. Your momma dresses you funny. grin. -Lon Cameron Hood wrote: Threds about beer and the blackout can carry on unchecked, but if I mention a Mac I get screamed at? Which is more applicable to photography? I use my computer constanly for editing, printing a

Re: any news?

Amen to that. Inkjets have an amazing ability to make the oddball pixels disappear. They are quite good at reproducing small scratches, though, in my experience. I have the same problem with the way inkjets are now reviewed. People examine them with loupes and complain about dithering, and so fort

OT: before I waste my time, advise requested (printing from lowres digicam)

My wife's sister died suddenly, and I am in receipt of a passle of JPEGS from which to select pictures to print and pass out at a service in her memory. My wive is asking for 5x7 prints of a recent portrait of her sister. The pictures were taken with one of those Sony digitals that write to floppy

Re: My new toy (cont)

This is the second shot I've seen of your daughter. I wanna borrow that kid, shoot a gazillion rolls, and turn her into the Turn-of-The-Century Shirley Temple. She's that cute. Boris Liberman wrote: Hi! For your enjoyment: http://www.usefilm.com/showphoto.php?id=195204 Soft lenses rule . Boris

Re: optio s

I don't know, not having used digicams myself. A friend of mine, a long time film shooter and darkroom type, just bought a 3 MPixel rangefinder digicam, and according to him, the viewfinder on these things is useless. He found himself quickly using the LCD for all shots. Knowing him as I do, he

Re: slow list so questions

What about analog TTL flashes (AF280T, for example) on the ZX-L? TTL compatible? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Will my old flashes (280T and 200T) work fine on the Ist D?

Printing from Low Res Jpeg

Thanks to all who responded. I've had a chance to look at the picture they will use at the service. It's the shot I've been asked to duplicate. Shot on a Mavica at 640 by 480, taken to some printing service, and a poor quality 8x10 is the result. My 5x7 looks much better, and I could do a bette

Re: Printing from Low Res Jpeg

Gotta use HP premium paper if I want that 70 year rating. -Lon Bill Owens wrote: Tried a different paper? Ilford paper gives me a more magenta tint than Epson paper on my 1270. Bill -Original Message- From: Lon Williamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 9:42 AM

Re: Back from the Grave

If you had anything vital on those drives, there are companies that specialize in data recovery from such. They typically advertise in the classified section of pc mags. Although they can't usually get everything off, they can recover a lot. Not cheap, though. -Lon Mark Cassino wrote: At 04:09 P

ist-D question for those of you who've had "paws on" at GFM

If you use a manual focus lens with the istD, does it help you with a focus confirmation LED? -Lon

Re: Printing from Low Res Jpeg

Long have I looked for such, Butch. As far as I can tell, if you want profiles from HP, you don't buy the consumer stuff. Dammit all. Butch Black wrote: Lon; Does the HP site have paper profiles for your printer on it? Once I started using profiles my print quality improved tremendously, to the

Re: What cameras do you use; why and for what?

Never trust a person who replaces perfectly good leatherette with snake skin. grin. Cesar Matamoros II wrote: Being that I went to Roatan recently... I use a Nikonos V with SB101 strobe for underwater photography. It was a relearning experience of estimating distances since it is a rangefinder.

Re: OT: Survival Kit

I hold with Weston, who (I think it was him) said: "If it's more than 500 yards from the car, it's not photogenic". And he lugged LF equipment. The only concessions I make to mother nature: bug spray (when appropriate), a silver hip flask filled with water, a hat with a wide-ish brim, and tennis

OT: Two enlargers and lenses-comments requested

I'm a ColorNeg/Scanner/Photoshop kind of guy, but my wife likes to enlarge B&W in the bathroom. Her first enlarger was a Bogen 22A Special condenser with a metal Voss 50mm f3.5-16 lens with 5 aperature blades made in Japan. Her brother just gave her an Omega C-700 condenser with a (graphite?) Roden

Re: PUG: September open - suggestions for themes (next year)

I vote for No Themes. Every gallery open. That means I can submit to any gallery without having to run out and waste a roll just for the Pug. I waste enough rolls as it is. My 2 cents. -Lon

Re: Didn't make the PUG but...

Hadda use _fast_ autofocus to snag these critters! I like the shot, Cory. -Lon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once again I didn't get off my duff to get a photo in the PUG. I did, however get out to the Zoo and got a few interesting shots. It's easier to shoot these wild beasts when they are cooped up

Re: PUG: September open - suggestions for themes (next year)

Much too tame. We need: X-Rated Assasins I have known Car Wreck Victims Cadavers Now _thar's_ 4 months of themes that'll perk up interest from outsiders. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I liked Marnie's suggestions, especially the "Mystery" one.

Re: New member

Welcome aboard, Hans. This group is (mostly) well-behaved. Hans Beumer wrote: Hello everybody, just a little introduction of a new member. I' ve been reading this list (at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/) since a few months now, and since I'm a Pentax fan, I finally decided to join t

Re: After K2: Super A/Program or...

The SuperA/Program goes to 1/2000 Matt Bevers wrote: On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 01:58 PM, Anders Hultman wrote: I have two ME:s and one SuperA and they all have 1/1000 as their fastest shutter speed. ...but my ME Super goes to 1/2000. As for the Super Program, I should be able to tell yo

Re: What's the best Pentax 50mm?

Why do I get the feeling that Cotty's future PUG shots will be taken with a FrankenMonster camera boasting a 30+ year old Takumar lens?

Re: New member

Paul Delcour wrote, in part: Thanks for all the response on my K2 and now what posting. For now, I'm still very happy with it so unless someone convinces me I should get this or that model, K2's my way. The _problem_ with this list is euphamistically called "enabling". What that means is that afte

Re: OT: Two enlargers and lenses-comments requested

Well, I've done a bit of investigation via the web, and the Omega has advantages over the Bogen. It's still made, and you can get parts for it. Looks like the cheapest step up in 50mm lenses would be a Nikkor. I don't suppose Pentax ever made enlarger lenses. -Lon

Re: New member

I don't think "still own" is the way to put it. Most of us have not owned them, as far as I know. However, those who have them generally like them. I'm a KX kind of guy, myself, but I almost bought a K2 at a camera swap once. Paul Delcour wrote: That reminds me: who on this list still owns a K2 and

Re: New member

Don't sweat the small stuff. I've made a thousand misspellings myself. -Long Boris Liberman wrote: BL> You're terribly right, Long [grin]. Thousand apologies. It was supposed to be "Lon". And [grin] was not about the way I misspelled it of course. It is a reflex in my typing, to type certain let

Re: Genuine Fractals ...

I've used GF a few times. It can take a _long_ time on older computers. One advantage it does have is that often files in its format are smaller than PNG or even JPG at a high quality setting. As for rezzing up, it seems to be only slightly better than stair-stepping with bicubic. Some folks say

Re: more wide angle filter stuff

The only way to know for sure is to test. Using DOF preview and stopping down can give you a quick check, but since no Pentax viewfinder to my knowledge shows 100% of the frame, that check isn't absolute. Try one oversized filter and a given step up on your widest lens. Shoot a test shot stopped d

Re: Shooting RAW or Jpeg? (was: RE: Card reader/hard drive combo)

Breezebrowser, eh? Better than NeatImage? I've found NeatImage to be better for film grain reduction than any other thing I've tried (custom actions, Grain Surgery and stuff built into the SwissArmyKnife type of PlugIns). Tom, have you tried BreezeBrowser's noise reduction on film scans? If so, h

K 24mm f2.8 chromatic aberrations

Anyone else notice consistent color fringing when using this lens? My sample consistently shows slight color fringes in scans. More so than any other lens I own. -Lon

Re: OT - Blowing my own horn

Frank, here's a chance to get Cotty back. You know he's gonna Frankestein a screw-Tak to his Canon DLSR. Find some exotic expensive screwmount lens that costs a bundle, and email him. Extol the virtues. Make him _pay_. Grin frank theriault wrote: some snipped. Then Dave Chang Sang

Re: OT Elements Q

Elements can't do 16 bit. I, too, got Elements with my PIE 3600 Primefilm scanner. The answer is to use Photoshop or some other 16-bit capable app. Don't pitch Elements, though. It has a few features that photoshop does not have. Photomerge Stitching and the quick'n'dirty Redeye reduction brush

Re: OT Elements Q

Gee, Corry, I had more to respond to. Part Deaux: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does PS really not support higher than 8 bit color or is there a setting I need to change? Should I care about this? Some say doing initial color correction in 16 bits minimizes chances of "posterization". I will admit

Re: OT Elements Q

Probably the best 2 sentence description I ever read concerning sRGB and AdobeRGB. I don't use AdobeRGB any more, as my prime reason for using Photoshop is printing on cheapo inkjets. T Rittenhouse wrote: Also, sRGB should be close to what you can get on a print. AdobeRGB loses a lot of oomph when

Re: SMC 55mm Takumar meets Canon

What is that butt ugly thang behind that nice old Tak? ..Congratulations, Cotty. Looking forward to more PUG shots from you. -Lon

Re: pentax-discuss-d Digest V03 #950

Interestingly, I read an article about OSX that hinted Apple had very easy portability in mind when creating this new OS. The rationale in the article was that Apple was getting antsy about the long-term survival of the PowerPC processor. Cameron Hood wrote: Har, har, har! Excellent work, old bean

Re: Building a photo database. Any MS Access experts out there?

Mark Roberts wrote: What I'm most interested in is a way of automatically populating fields in the "Individual prints" table with information from the "film rolls" table after I enter the film roll # in a form. It sounds like you're trying to make an un-normalized data base here. Access is relatio

Re: Building a photo database. Any MS Access experts out there?

Last time I looked at FileMaker, it was a) relational (a good thing) b) one hell of a lot easier to learn than Access. Andre Langevin wrote: Mark, I cannot help much as I am myself in the process of finding a way to do it (on a Mac). So I will rather be following advices. For those who might kno

Re: 135/2.5 Pentax or Takumar - what's the difference?

That thar's the famed K f2.5. It's a honey. Good bokeh, works great (IMHO) with a Vivitar 2X Macro TC for closeups. Paul Delcour wrote: How about this one then (with hte danger that one of you may bid, but that's only fair: sharing info and all that):

Re: *istD vs. Optio 550

As I recall, the Optio 550 is a little sluggish to turn on, has noticable zoom, focus, and shutter lag as well. I doubt the istD is as sluggish. If you don't take a lot of action shots, the 550 might be cost effective. Dowell,Jackie [Burlington] wrote: I am trying to decide which of these 2 digita

Re: G'day All

These danged Aussies is taking over the list! Welcome, Trevor. Beware "enablement".. -Lon John Coyle wrote: G'day Trev! Welcome to the list, and if you're ever coming to BrisVegas give me a bell!

Re: A New Tool

Yup. Too far left "focuses" grain. Herb Chong wrote: one thing i have discovered in my experimentation. the leftmost position is not usually the position with minimum effect. start at the leftmost setting of deblur and move the slider to the right one click at a time. you will see that there are

Re: Building a photo database. Any MS Access experts out there?

Another vote for FileMaker. Easiest to program that I ever saw. Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote: on 10.09.03 5:54, Doug Franklin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it is, avoid it at all costs. Are you using OSX? If so, there are tons of open source databases out there, and almost any of them will beat

Re: some more *ist D samples

Paul Eriksson wrote: If we're not talking about the *ist D then it would be FA 24mm f/2.0 FA 35mm f/2.0 FA 100mm macro f/2.8 FA 80-200mm f/2.8 or FA 200mm f/2. If you can stand 1 stop slower for the first three, substitute: K 24mm f/2.8 M 35mm f/f.8 M 100mm macro f/4 And if you want a 200mm pr

Re: Building a photo database. Any MS Access experts out there?

Mark, you may want to avoid thumbnails in the database if you're talking huge amounts of pictures. If the database provides a picture name that you can find quickly with a decent picture browser and an organized series of picture folders, you'll probably be able to ZIP or RAR your database to a sm

Re: Flash sync question

I just pulled my Sunpak out, and lo, tis the auto 266D. There's a switch labled OT and PT. Must be set to PT (meaning Pentax, not Olympus). Does analog TTL or thyristor on one of two f-stops (2.8 or 5.6 when at ISO 100). Tilt, no swivel, on full manual it cannot do fractions of full flash. Zooms

Re: some more *ist D samples

No wizard, me. But I do own one. The M-200 f/4 is smallish, 52mm thread, built-in hood. I like mine a lot, although scans often show slight chromatic problems (yellowish fringe on one side of an object, bluish on the other). I assume, therefore, no APO elements were used to construct it. The f

OT, related to focus fixer as kicked off by Herb

Another relatively new sharpening tool is FocalBlade, which appears to be an unsharp-mask based tool. I'd say it beats Nik Sharpener Pro by a considerable margin (more flexible, faster, less grain sharpening). I no longer use actions based on USM - gimme FocalBlade any day. And I'm thinking of u

Re: OT, related to focus fixer as kicked off by Herb

ny type of selection. It can only process RGB 8- and 16-bit at present. It can deblur, sharpen, and soften, each in several different ways. Luminous Landscape has a favorable review. I just got my copy. Focus fixer is headed for an uninstallation. Lon Williamson wrote: Another relatively ne

K-mount compatible Ricoh XR-2 hands on report

The local camera swap happened this past weekend, and I got there at the very tail end. Ended up purchasing the Ricoh XR-2. I made them swap the lens on it for a gen-you-wine Pentax M50f1.4. I bought it because it sorta combines a KX and SuperProgram. It's closest Pentax relative is probably the K

Re: Camera size and lens size.

My guess is that you're confused by focal length and filter thread. I don't own the lenses mentioned, but it sounds like you have a 55mm focal length macro lens with a 58mm thread. The thread is the thing you can use to attach polarizers and other filters. A flash that "covers" 28mm means that if

Re: Camera size and lens size.

This sounds right to me. One of the reasons I like the K 55mm f1.8 is that, on the KX, the eye in the viewfinder sees things at exactly the same magnification as the other eye. Put a 50mm lens on the KX, and this is no longer true. J. C. O'Connell wrote: Ok, but why then 50mm and not 43mm? My

Re: First Pano Try

Mark, I've been interested in trying panos as well. A few questions: 1) What focal length? I've heard it said that going below 50mm is not advisable in 35mm because of distortion at the edges. 2) Did you shoot vertically or horizontally? Here again, advise I've read says to shoot vertically (co

Re: leaving old Copal electronic shutter cocked: Allowed?

Hmmm... this camera does have one mechanical setting: 1/90th second, works without batteries. Does that change the equation? It also works in Bulb without batteries. -Lon William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: "Lon Williamson" Subject: OT: leaving old Copal electron

Re: First Pano Try

titching panoramas, and the meat of that article was the basis for my other questions. And now the _ultimate_ new question: Are you pleased with your first effort? Looked good to me in computer resolution on your site. -Lon Mark Cassino wrote, snipped heavily: At 09:18 AM 9/16/2003 -0400, Lon Willi

Re: Tripods usage with DSLR

Nope. Boosting ISO to get the shutter speed you want causes underexposure, all else being equal. You should not, repeat: NOT adjust ISO to boost your shutter speed just to keep hand-holding. Really. -Lon Ramesh Kumar wrote: Let me make it clear.. Say I am using 100mm lens and I also want apertur

Re: First Pano Try

Well I'll be dipped. Sounds like this would not be too hard to do with a two-axis Macro Rail like my Velbon. Thanks, Rob! Rob Studdert wrote: The nodal point of a lens can be tested easily if you have a mount which allows easy adjustment of the sidewards and front to back position of the camera

Re: OT: Leni Reifenstahl: A giant passes away

I don't want Brucie dead. I'd hate to stir up his kin. Doug Franklin wrote: Chris Brogden wrote: If you want a particular list member dead, can you at least tell them that off-list? Just put Bruce in your kill file and you won't have to "listen" to his misogynist (and otherwise offensive) ramblin

Re: First Pano Try

Let's dump on Mark for his first Pano. (Grumpy Critic Voice): "Hell, not only are there TWO rivers but they aren't mentioned in Hemingway. Amateur shrimp." -lol -Lon Mark Cassino wrote: Hi Marnie - At 02:54 PM 9/17/2003 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My eye didn't know where to go. The

Re: My own little *ist D review (fwd)

Is it not interesting that people are predicting Pentax's Future from crippled (and mostly LowBall) bodies? Hell, I am too. Well, the old glass is still cheap, may get cheaper, and as long as my eyes can still focus, the hell with it. Chris Brogden wrote: Now Pentax users know *exactly* how Nikon

Re: An outing with an MX.

Cesar, You ain't no Newbie. If your MX LEDS are difficult to see in anything but Shiney Sun Light At Your Back, then, from MHO, there are only 2 possible problems at work: a) Your eyes ain't what they used to be. I say this at age 53. b) That there MX ain't quite right. Cesar Matamoros II wrote: N

Re: My own little *ist D review (fwd)

Arnold, I 'spects you are right. This is just as awkward and stupid as using a K-1000 to "get DOF". Pentax needs to change the firmware. PENTAX NEEDS TO CHANGE THE FIRMWARE. (repeat after me:) PENTAX NEEDS TO CHANGE THE FIRMWARE. PENTAX NEEDS TO CHANGE THE FIRMWARE. PENTAX NEEDS TO CHANGE THE FIR

Re: Pairs

There is not such thing as a "pple" There are "People". I'm gonna hit Cotty with a wet sock. Wetted, mind you, with something alcoholic. You gotta tempt the horse to water before you shove his head in for a brew. lol Apple computer was invented by Hippies in the danged 70's. Anyone who uses one h

Re: OT: Washington DC hunkering down for the big one

Did our Leerless Feader fart recently? Cotty wrote: I gather that the storm is about to hit. You guys take it easy there while the wind blows.

Re: Tripod use

I agree with everything Boris says. But... There's more to tripods than sharpness. Honestly. Even though I hate to carry them. Boris Liberman wrote: Christian, you're basically right, but your reasoning has to take into account the ultimate outcome. If we're talking 30x40 cm prints or 10x15 cm pr

Re: OT-Hats and Good Health-was:An outing with an MX.

Frank, you look better wearing Nothing in Public. For proof, www.FrankNekkid.com/Don'tBuyTooManyShotsAtOnce. Them gals is eating it up, lemme tell ya. lol Bob S wrote:riault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> So I should wear my Moroccan fez in public? Haven't done that yet, but if it's a health issue...

Re: OT: Pentax Image in Outdoor Photographer

Seconded. Nice shot in a place hard to get to. Mark Cassino wrote: Congrats again, Ken!

Re: My own little *ist D review (fwd)

Mark, I think this is crap. Pentax has been screwing with DLSRs for 4 years. That's enough time to hatch, say, WindowsME. And cameras ain't as hard as operating sytems. Pentax may need to hire some more SW engineers. Mebbe they can find some in Pakinstan. Mark Roberts wrote: "whickersworld" <[EMA

Re: Tripod use

Geeze, Wm Robb, I like your posts. I'm never gonna be a Pro, but you seem so _sensible_. And sometimes, crabby. Me too. -Lon BTW, no crab in the below- William Robb wrote: One of the truly wonderful things about being an amateur photographer after a few decades as a pro boy is that I now have t

Re: Washington DC hunkering down for the big one

Water is needed to wipe Cabernet et.al. offn' any part of you that is stained or smelly. Good ole Aitch Two Owe is useful stuff. Universal solvent, ya know. -Lon Cotty wrote: On 18/9/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Got the checklist right here: - Water - Flashlight - Milk - Bread - Cabe

Re: Does anyone here enjoy writing photography articles or tutorials?

Looks like he raped Mark. . And, lol. Mark Roberts wrote: Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone here enjoy writing photography articles or tutorials? I was looking for a few good writers and was curious if anyone here enjoys writing about pentax or photography in general. Hmm, and exac

Re: Tripod use -

I don't think there are bad tripods, unless you include the plastic head and mostly plastic body thingies at the Marts. Once you have a 'pod that's mostly metal, you have a useful item. And using modest lenses, wrt focal length, I think good ones can be had for about $100. "William Robb" <[EMAIL

Re: *ist D hits down under.

Leon, you owe us a report or 2 once you have your hands on it. Leon Altoff wrote (snipped): .I should be 6 days away from my *ist D.

Re: OT: Pentax Image in Outdoor Photographer

I think 10 years is an overshoot. Of course, you ain't young no more, and it might take longer. I've been playing fretted instruments (mostly guitar) since 1964. If you discount 1964 to 1968 as adolescent idiocy (and you should), I learned one _hell of a lot_ between 68 and 72. Enough to write

Re: Evaluating Photographs - long

Perspicacious, eh? Sweaty? grin. No one's mentioned photography's magic dirty little secret: What you choose to show is vital. What percentage of your shots would you show on PUG, for example? For me, right now, selecting shots to scan/keep is the real magic. I mean, you should see some of the

Re: M 1.4 50mm question

Factor in the usual shipping and I think the lens you're looking at is in the ballpark. You can spend wait too much time waiting for bargains. frank theriault wrote: Thanks Bill, and everyone else who answered/commented on my post. The concensus seems that it's a nice lens, but the price is a bit

Pro Pug October Comments

My favorites, as if that means anything: Ken Waller - Ice Flower: Hey, I saw it in the rag and now it appears here! I understand why you selected it for this month. Good shot. Rolf Brenner - Strange Noise: Best shot on PUG this month, IMHO. I find it extremely difficult to shoot crowds. This one

Re: Portrait Lens Question

Not all P&S. The presets are usually called "focus free" and are very low end. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Chris Brogden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> How do you account for the fact that p&s digital cameras can still blur the background for some portrait shots? With focal lengths around 7-12mm or so, p

Re: Dan Matyola's PUG

Heck, Robb, I thought YOU were in charge. We could send you Alexander Haig. He likes to be in charge of things William Robb wrote: ... The world has to remember that there really is no one at the helm in Canada, and it makes us pretty gullible at times.

Advise on zooms to round out my collection sought

I have primes covering 20 to 200mm, fairly well spaced out. 20, 24, 28, 35, 50, 100, 135 and 200 to be exact. Most are Pentax. About the only lens I might add is a fast 85, but not right now. I currently own an A 35-70 f4 and a Sigma APO 70-300. The Sigma is too big and bulky to consider the two

Re: Winder MX, problem ?

Hmmm... my winder was purchased from a shop specializing in repairs, and was used by the guy who owned it. Maybe he made mods to the winder. My winder will not activate the meter if the winder itself is off. Peter Alling wrote: That's not how the manual says it should work, or for that matter the

Re: Professions and the PUG

If we can agree that professionals are whores, then the oldest profession was represented _behind_ the camera in several shots. My turn to duck. -Lon Peter Alling wrote: Please Ann, this is a family list. (Not that I didn't consider it). At 09:35 AM 10/3/03 -0400, you wrote: Was kinda sur

Re: Travels with Stan: Scandanavian edition

Cotty is taking this "oldest profession" stuff a tad too far, even for the English.. grin. Cotty wrote: I'll be dressed in a Pentax vinyl skirt with embossed logo and pink high heels... There will be a small swarm of fruit flies just above my head, and if pressed for conversation will

Re: Winder MX, problem ?

m sticking with it. BTW, the MX used was the older (metal film holder) version. Peter Alling wrote: AFIK the behavior you describe is correct. Lon is wrong. At 04:29 PM 10/3/03 +0200, you wrote: Lon Williamson a écrit: Here's how the MX winder works with my MXen: a) Winder off, camera of

Re: Advise on zooms to round out my collection sought

Thanks to all who responded. It seems like my original plan to get an M 24-35 and an M 70-150 is a good plan. -Lon

Re: OT: Jpeg Q

If you open a jpeg in a photo editing program and save it as some other file format (tiff comes to mind), you avoid any further "jpegulation" damage. Very easy to avoid. graywolf wrote: Copying does not change the file. Openning it and saving it again does. So anytime you try to edit the file you

Re: Old lenses and *ist D

When shooting the IstD this way, can you adjust shutter speed in fractions of a stop? Or does it work the way that, say, a K1000 does: full stop shutter speed changes only? Mark Roberts wrote: You do have such an option: Meter wide open in manual, stop down to shooting aperture and adjust the shu

Re: *ist D

. Rob Studdert wrote: On 6 Oct 2003 at 12:24, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: "Lon Williamson" Subject: Re: *ist D It would probably be pretty easy to make a photoshop action that spotted out hot pixels. I think I could whip one up if I knew exactly which pixe

Re: *ist D

nyway? Am I still missing something here? Or am I less of a perfectionist? Rob Studdert wrote: On 7 Oct 2003 at 9:29, Lon Williamson wrote: If the location of the pixels is constant, the color they take on is a non-issue, even if the color varies. You could develop a mask specific to your sens

Re: "normal" focal length of *ist-D?

Graywolf, last time I checked, my MX was very close with an M 50mm. If it's off, it's not by much. graywolf wrote: Well, first off lets straigthen out a misconception here. The screwmounts came with a 55mm because that gave a 1:1 (life size)image in the viewfinder. In those days that was a "featu

Re: Macro lenses

Working distance and background control. A 200mm puts you farther away than a 100, and often lets you be more selective in background. But the 200 is heavier and may require a heavier tripod. It is also bigger. The TC costs you sharpness. I think the best compromise in a field lens is a slow (f4)

Re: Motor Drive A Repair Resource?

One thing I do know is that to open the Motor Drive A, one needs a special tool. There are screws inside the battery compartment - three, if memory serves me - that must be removed to pull the thing apart. One of them is far enough back that it is impossible to get at with a standard straight-sha

Re: Motor Drive A Repair Resource?

I just had a look at mine. That switch on the battery component also has unreachable screws, at least they _look_ that way. I'd like to crack mine open because the vertical release doesn't work. Alan Chan wrote: One thing I do know is that to open the Motor Drive A, one needs a special tool. There

Re: (OT) Back from my travels

lol. Good to have you back. Humor, it seems to me, is the essence of groups like this. At least at times. -Lon jerome wrote: After driving around the country semi-aimlessly for just over a month (about six weeks I think), I finally arrived back "home" to Atlanta. Can't exactly call it home sin

Re: *Ist D and Windows

Win 98 does support USB 1.1. I've used my two USB ports to support a film scanner, 2 printers, wheel mice, and a graphics tablet. All on a lowly Etower 333MHz Celeron purchased in '98. -Lon graywolf wrote: IIRCC, 98 did not have USB capability, 98SE definitely does. William Robb wrote: - O

Re: correct exposure (how to shoot weddings, etc.)

The first wedding photography book I read dealt with exposure. The photog pre-focused his lenses to about 6 feet and set ISO to 1 stop over while packing his gear. Me, I'd rather shoot toilet bowel product shots than weddings. Grin. -Lon Ann Sanfedele wrote: The trouble with the "every wedding p

Re: Old lenses, *istD, and the Pentax Mad Scientists

I actually think such a camera is a good idea. Simplify metering, too. Mebbe CW and Spot. Take the LCD off to further reduce cost and battery consumption. You wanna see your pix onsite, you take a laptop. I'd be interested. On 15 Oct 2003 at 21:25, John Francis wrote: I share your doubts that t

Re: unsubscribe

Go to the PUG home page and follow the instructions for unsubscribing. It works, honest. I've done it several times when I switched email accounts. -Lon Paul Stenquist wrote: no Tony Gieske wrote: Is there any way I can unsubscribe from this list? My emails keep being returned. Tony Gieske

Re: correct exposure

And for the fact that you treated grade school teachers unkindly. And for the state of your toenails, most days. And for Frankencameras and all they will let loose upon the world. Cotty the Sinner. Let us all pray. grin. Cotty wrote: Don't apologise! I should be apologising for my demented sense

Re: LX users - where to process film?

Try scanning your film. I'll bet, if it's processed "1 hour", you'll have more dust and scratches than you can shake 8 sticks at. Dip and Dunk is supposed to minimize these problems, but such processing is rare, may be quite a distance from your house, and more expensive. -Lon jmb wrote: Mark Robe

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