William Robb wrote:
We in the US had a President some years back by the name of Richard
Nixon. He uttered a line that became somewhat famous: "I am not a
crook." My reply was meant to be a play on that old phrase.
Didn't he turn out to be a crook?
They (politicians) are a
when there are choices of supply.
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ree before they hop down to
the table. Shoot them in the tree (I hate birdfeeder pictures). Birds
are nervous critters and don't stay still for even a second. Try to work
from a concealed position if possible.
Keep practicing.
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is a challenge. I don't have
any suggestions for improvement there except to take a gunnery class.
Tom Reese
Bob Shell wrote:
> My specialty was butterflies, and they're not very noisy!
that depends on the severity of the hangover.
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Doug Brewer wrote:
Got back from the GFM Camera Clinic a few hours ago, and must report
that I had much fun. Saw several regulars like Cesar, Tom Reese, Bill
Owens and the lurkers, but also had the pleasure of meeting and talking
with our own Scott Loveless during his first visit to GFM. I
ander around
looking at all the things you would photograph if you had a camera to use.
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ncorporate many of the improvements
announced in the 2000 Ulan Bator show:
http://www.diaspoir.net/photography/totlpp.html
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The AF360FGZ flash has a little white plastic panel that slides out
directly above the flash head and supposedly causes little highlights in
the eyes of photographic subjects.
I don't know if it works or not. I've never tried it.
Tom Reese
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
I never heard of su
ly be exempt.
We should choose someone who sometimes uses Canon or Nikon equipment,
writes to the list prolifically and has been around a long time. Do you
have any suggestions?
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retty much what film shooters have to do.
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rice seems a little high to me.
> I assume, that at least some on this list have seen such thing.
I bought one of the older ones off eBay a little while ago. Now all I have
to do is shoot the film I bought.
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, this
only works when the subject is at or near infinity. When the subject is
closer, the lens has to be focused closer too. The teleconverter will then
fine tune the focusing.
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mpensation after use
You're really doing it the hard way.
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A strict definition of macro is 1:1 or greater magnification. Most people
seem to use the terms interchangeably.
The 1:1 magnification referred to the image size on film vs. actual size. I
don't know how that works with APS sized sensors.
Tom Reese
- Original Message -
From:
> On Sep 13, 2005, at 7:24 AM, Tom Reese wrote:
>
> > note to self 2:
> >
> > don't forget to reset the exposure compensation after use
> >
> > You're really doing it the hard way.
>
> The reason why I didn't set exposure compensation was
Damn, I didn't know anything happened to chrome. If it disappeared then what
are all those rolls in my refrigerator? What's in all those yellow boxes on
my desk? What are those rolls in my cameras?
Now I'm confused.
Tom (Give me ektachrome or give me death) Reese
From: "frank theriault"
> You're an anachromism
I'm going to let that slide for now. The transparency of your motive speaks
for itself.
Tom (the ektamorph) Reese
> >> You're an anachromism
> >
> >I'm going to let that slide for now. The transparency of your motive
speaks
> >for itself.
>
> You don't fool me. I expect to see you make a complete reversal of your
> position very soon.
Why can't you be more positive?
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> > Why can't you be more positive?
>
> Don't be so sensitive. There's a grain (of) truth to what he says.
I don't like the way this thread is developing. I need to limit my exposure.
Tom
> On Sep 13, 2005, at 10:45 PM, Tom Reese wrote:
>
> > My "doing it the hard way" comment was in reference to your
> > calculating the
> > exposure compensation for the tubes instead of using in camera
> > metering.
>
> I was using my 6x7 at the time
> On 14/9/05, Martin Trautmann, discombobulated, unleashed:
>
> >ok... Let's discuss email headers:
>
>
> Who is this guy??
I don't know but his name sounds a little fishy.
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m doesn't thread anything. I
get them sorted by date and I need some context to figure out what's going
on.
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video card. They lost their shine a long long
time ago (just about the same time I lost all my patience). Now they aren't
fun anymore. They're aggravating, annoying, hateful pieces of junk.
Hmmm, it appears that I've filled my monthly rant quota a bit early.
Tom Reese
> What obs
;ve filled my monthly rant quota a bit early.
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> What obsolete primitive mail read are you using?
> Tom Reese wrote:
> >
> > Not everyone reads them that way. My mail program doesn't thread
anything. I
> > get them sorted by date and I need some context to figure out what's
going
> > on.
Sorry about the double posting. Like I said, I hate these &%$&ing things.
Tom Reese
Has anyone found a way to use rectangular graduated neutral density filters
with this lens? I can't figure out a way to attach a Cokin P holder. The
lens isn't much good for landscapes if one can't use grad ND filters.
Tom Reese
Paul Sorenson wrote:
"I thought Outlook Express would sort by subject so you can follow a thread
if you want."
It will sort by subject but it completely ignores dates. Todays mail gets
mixed in with the saved stuff from two years ago.
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tting but I may have to try it. Digital? What's
that?
>HTH
Thanks for the reply. It confirmed that I'm not missing something and that
the hood is indeed permanently attached to the lens.
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nock the glass out of an old filter so that you can thread the
> rectangular filter adapter into it, maybe?
The hood's pretty deep. It would take 5 or 6 old filter rings to clear the
hood. I'm pretty sure I'd get some vignetting but I'm going to have to give
it a try.
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the main source of income for Pentax.
> >
> >If it's not #1, it's certainly "right up there"...
>
> I don't think Pentax appreciates being made the butt of a joke like
> that...
If they don't like it they can shove it.
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> Anyhoo, I have not used Outlook Express in a couple of years but I seem
> to remember that you can set it to thread messages.
there isn't any way that I've found so far and I quit looking.
> I am sure you can
> set it to sort by subject.
that I can do but the new messages get all mixed in with
David Savage offered the following advice:
> Try going to View - Current View - Group Messages by Conversation. I
> have Outlook Express 6, and by doing this it sorts the messages by
> thread.
That worked. Thanks for the tip.
Tom Reese
7;ve
used a couple of the Hi-Tech filters and never noticed any color shifts with
them.
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"Cotty" wrote:
> Pentax should have made a thousand MZ-D cameras, introduced IS somehow,
> and just *given* the gear away to accredited photographers. The gear gets
> seen, it gets related to, and the entry-level gear gets purchased.
I think we'll see a high res camera with in camera IS and possi
Cotty wrote this about Fred:
> He's a witch! BURN 'IM!
He turned me into a newt.
Tom Reese
Herb Chong wrote:
> i have had the checkbook ready for a year and there hasn't been anything
to
> buy.
I think you'll have your opportunity soon enough.
Tom Reese
w to me. They're going out of stock as fast as they're
arriving.
New lenses are in the pipeline. They'll be here.
Tom Reese
- Original Message -
From: "P. J. Alling"
> If they're not meeting demand they are losing sales. Some specialty
> lenses, the ones professionals use are back ordered for months. The
> FA50/1.4 isn't exactly a specialty lens.
the FA50.1.4 is currently in stock at B&H.
Tom Reese
a- compelling...
I believe that their new high end camera will be competitive and have enough
whiz bang features to capture some significant attention.
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recent lenses should work with it.
How about a shoe mounted external radar unit for autofocusing? How cool
would that be?
Tom Reese
Subject: RE: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request)
> WILLIAM I strongly suggest you go
> back and read the entire thread
> from the very beginning
and I strongly suggest that you ignore the entire thread and forget about
trying to argue with this guy.
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ump-off - try to out curmudgeon the master for prizes
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ly, KEH has them new in stock for not a whole lot (10%) more than the
KEH price.
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s. They'll let you know when it comes in.
Tom Reese
> Doug Brewer wrote:
>
> I don't know if that proves you're not crazy.
>
> Because I wrote:
>
>
> Well, I still say I'm not.
me thinks ye doth protest too much
Tom Reese
- Original Message -
From: "J. C. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm getting TIRED of your RANTING and RAVING. You sound like NUT and a
LUNATIC.
I wish you'd SHUT the #&@% UP for a while.
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ed. I don't know if that's
true and neither do you. Only the Pentax engineers know for sure.
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ng
boards. We don't know what projects were aborted. We don't know what's been
designed into their lenses and cameras.
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lenses to take full advantage of the
cameras capabilities and to get the best possible pictures. It is my opinion
that it's foolish to do otherwise.
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product or technology supersedes the old
2. The product becomes useless due to changes in other products
The lenses are obsolete whether you want to admit it or not.
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is your opinion that the bodies can't support the lenses because of a few
cheap parts. You're supreme arrogance is preventing you from considering any
other possibility.
I don't want to try to do AE with K/M lenses. I'd rather try it with new
modern lens designs.
Tom Reese
o come up with a good reason
> for Pentax to be doing this.
I told you several times. We don't know what went on in the Pentax
engineering spaces. Without that knowledge there's no way of knowing why
they made that decision. There may be a very good technical reason for it.
It is a possibility that you refuse to even consider.
Tom Reese
From: "E.R.N. Reed"
Subject: Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request)
> Tom Reese wrote:
>
> >From: "J. C. O'Connell"
> >
> >
> >>So you are agreeing THAT EVERY K/M
> >>LENS BOUGHT BY ANYONE NOW is bought
> >>b
t about it. The billions of "it depends"
permutations make further debate pointless.
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ity that Pentax may have had a reason for what they did.
I can abide your ignorance but your arrogance is intolerable.
Tom Reese
Peter Jordan wrote:
> Call me a luddite if you will, but every time I see a bright, sharp set of
> Velvia trannys from my LX or 645 I am convinced that as far as image
quality
> goes, film still rules.
If you were female I'd marry you.
Tom Reese
Hey, I have some standards. Who do you think I am? Cotty?
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> Don't let that stop you.
>
> On 9/24/05, Tom Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Peter Jordan wrote:
> >
> > > Call me a luddite if you will,
> >
> > If you were female I'd marry you.
> >
> > Tom Reese
William Robb turned my stomach when he replied to me like this:
> From: "Tom Reese"
> >
> > If you were female I'd marry you.
>
> Hell, Tom, if I were single, I'd marry you.
Jeeezus, I just pictured Robb in a wedding dress. I may never eat again.
Tom Reese
ieve that they had to
take some stuff off the camera to hit their price point. That was one of the
things they removed.
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ike. I think I'm going to shoot some 3D PDML portraits at the NPW.
Stereo photography is very cool IMO.
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e that any photographer no matter how good would
have a far better ratio of hits to misses when he used autofocus. The
content is eagles in flight. I can tell you from first hand experience that
those shots are tough to get. I'd want the best autofocus system I could get
my hands on if I was taking
uldn't miss it either as long as there's some other way to set the
aperture.
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't make sense for a flash that sells new for $50 but a $400 unit
should be repairable.
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hy is a specialized application
and it requires special tools. With better tools, the photographer will get
more good shots. That's critical when he's doing it to put food on the
table.
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rection changes too often. You only have a
moment to get the shot before they're gone. A photographer with less
equipment will set up on a tree and wait. He'll get shots of eagles but he
won't get the shots we're talking about.
Tom Reese
Frank Theriault showed how cruel and insensitive he is when he wrote:
> On 9/24/05, Tom Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > If you were female I'd marry you.
>
> If you were a female, I'd run real fast in the other direction.
That would hurt my
a mountain at twilight so they don't have an
"oooh aah look how pretty" impact but the content is there.
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he
colors, stopped down lens and flash to accentuate the foreground and
minimized the background.
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nt will eventually run out of
credit. The aftermath will not be pretty.
Tom Reese
Don Sanderson wrote:
"I've joined the masses..
of crazed, glassy eyed, "spend whatever it takes" Pentax lens
buyers on eekBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7509253162
I just want to thank everyone at the PDML for getting me
hopelessly addicted to Pentax primes!!
[EMAIL [EM
frank theriault got lost in the past when he wrote:
"When I was a kid, I whined and kicked and screamed with sufficient
volume and tenacity, that my parents bought me one of those propeller
beanies. Not just any propeller beanie, mind you, but an official
Beanie and Cecil (anyone remember that car
frank theriault wrote:
"I remember Tom Terrific! My mom never let me wear the funnel, though."
That's interesting. She wouldn't let you wear the funnel but she bought
you the beanie. Now I know where you got your sense of humor.
"-frank (still a dumb adult) theriault"
I left that part unsaid. My
Don Sanderson replied to my original message as follows:
> > From: Tom Reese
> > You might find it useful to know that Mark Roberts hires himself out
> > as a pack mule but the camera bag has to be the backpack type.
> Already having a very large bag, and a hernia left ove
Amita Guha replied:
> > lunch in a
> > brewpub.
> Ooh, Nate will like that part...
So would I. I might be able to make this one.
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ds of stuff.
I had a ball. I hope I got some shots they can use.
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rating but that's the way it
works.
Tom Reese
Frank Theriault wrote:
"The word "libertarian" is a pretty wide-ranging one. Most people (I
would guess) think of it as a whacko-right thing, but many on the left
consider themselves to be "leftist libertarians", Chomsky likely being
the best known.
Not disputing what you said, Glenn, just expandi
uot;
Kerry said many things during the campaign that I thought were socialist
in principle. Perhaps that is what Collin meant.
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eliefs on everyone should be resisted. That is impossible in
a democracy. It is possible in a republic. Our freedom depends on the
distinction.
Tom Reese
Frank Theriault wrote:
Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:15:44 -0700
>On 4/26/05, Tom Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In a democracy, the
> majority rules. The minority has no rights under the law. The United
> States of America is not a democracy. It is a republic.
"With the great
da. I do not necesarily agree with the opinions cited on that webpage.
I apologize for citing that webpage.
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all the detail. Those are pretty big ifs.
If we're talking about digital capture and print vs. film and wet print
then there are probably a thousand ifs.
"Without assessing the specific print originals and duplicates you are
looking at, saying anything more would be wholly conjecture."
Agreed.
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Frank Theriault asked:
"You coming to GFM this year, Tom? I seem to recall that you are."
Indeed I am.
"I think we'll have a fun discussion over a beer or two, eh? "
I think we'll have several of both. (that acronym should keep
you busy for a little while)
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uld start looking at your processing methods. If the Canon raw image is
better than the Pentax raw image then you can start questioning your
technique and your equipment.
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cate
the taking of fuzzy images. Surely, we all agree that those
troublemaking rebels need to be re-educated and indoctrinated into the
Fellowship of the Tripod.
"BTW, welcome aboard!"
Indeed, welcome to the fray Luben.
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frame is a bit of a
distraction IMO. I think you could improve the picture by cropping the
top to reduce the size of that piece of open sky. That's my opinion only.
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e if you overexpose it by a stop and process it normally.
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submitted a pic for inside the mag
which was taken with my MZ-S..."
http://www.pbase.com/wendybeard/image/42643581";
They're both doggone good shots Wendy. Congratulations.
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ions on the show Frank. I like your work a lot. I'm sure the
public will too.
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noticed too. I'm sure it's tough to do street
photography when everyone is staring at you. I was glad to be without
one at Earth Day.
"I don't know what I am. I only know what I'm not (one of which would be
whatever you are )."
That's a mean thing to say. It would have hurt my feeling if I had one.
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ing a new compact digicam because our S50 can't come close
to replicating the results of the *istD, or
5. Throw a tantrum."
I vote for proseletyzing. Buy her an Optio and turn her into a
photographer too.
Tom Reese
slide film" you'll get a lot of hits.
"...and just how does the leaf shutter work? ;-)"
It works great for outdoor portraits with fill flash.
Tom Reese
Frank Theriault wrote:
"Sew, I'm done with this thread. No amount of needling will pry more
puns from this author tonight."
Oh, darn.
Tom Reese
Mark Cassino wrote:
"Groan
You guys have really strung this along"Indeed. What a bunch of
knitwits.Tom Reese
Frank Theriault replied to Mark Roberts as follows:
on 5/4/05, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Waitaminnit... I thought *you* were our dictator this week, Frank?
>
> (I can never keep track of these things...)
>
"Nope. I was dictator two weeks ago. Sheesh, get with the programme,
Mar
c
the one that used for his pioneering bullet
through the apple type shots
the ones built into those spacecraft that have been exploring Mars etc
the electron microscope cameras that photographed the ants head at a
thousand times lifesize
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and contradiction
I'm interested in hearing the thoughts of the group on these
definitions. Do you disagree with any of them?
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re moved by different words, different pictures. The only real test of
great universal art is time. If a work endures and speaks to every
generation, one can say that it is great art: a classic."
Agreed.
Thanks for the reply Paul. I appreciate your different point of view.
Tom Reese
ameras.
"My guess is that the current crop of DSLR's
will all be out of service in 10 years (if not sooner). Indeed, the
current digital photo capture/storage system may be completely out of
date and unusable by then."
No comment. I don't want to get the Digiphiles riled up anymore than
they already are.
Tom Reese
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