Re: PESO - Mirror Image

Very nice picture! Light, background, composition, colors,... But something else: happen to know what tree this is? I think I'm growing one of those myself, from seeds I picked up somewhere, but I've not discovered yet what it's called. Do you remember if it carried pod fruits? http://users.

Re: OT: Photographing insects

I have browsed his site with admiration, and indeed, I think his major achievement is catching flying insects. http://home.versateladsl.be/debakker/uitrusting_frame_set.htm This page on his site will probably not be understood by most of you, as it is in Dutch, and even I don't really catch th

Re: PAW: People & Portraits 2005 #32 - GDG

That's what you can certainly read from his eyes! I've seen these eyes before, but most of the times, the 'bubbling over' is rather bothering me... A common problem with respectable people that live in another world due to their age. Maybe I am the problem and should regret. Groeten, Vic G

Re: 36mm x 36mm sensor?

I don't know much about sensor technology, but Hasselblad seems to have very large size sensors: On http://www.hasselblad.se/frames/contentframe.asp?pageURL=/general/SectionToItem.asp?secId=1135 they claim that "The 22 Mpixels sensor is 37x49mm" Seems a bit ridiculous for just me, but hey, that

Re: OT - PAW - Tumbling

Hello, composition is nice. Looks like giant claws. Color is wonderful. You hardly see anybody's face. In this kind of machines, faces can become quite interesting. Did you hide the faces by purpose? Groeten, Vic Cotty wrote: OT because it's not Pentax.

Re: PESO - In The Tower

Hello, Fascinating picture. Did you do bracketing, or was your exposure spot-on? Did you spend a lot of time in that chapel to watch the light evolve and wait for the best impression? Could you tell the focal distance of your lens? About 20mm or even wider? More questions than appreciation,

PESO: son in backyard

My first PESO... Two pictures at once, shot with different lenses. http://users.pandora.be/vicmortelmans/fts/050900_Toon/ http://users.pandora.be/vicmortelmans/fts/050900_Toon1/ I selected this ones because composition, light and focus appear very nice. I must admit these pictures are selected

Re: PESO: son in backyard

I've replaced the pictures by some larger ones. One the first publication, I resized the pictures (FastStone Image Viewer) to be 10x15cm in size at 72dpi, because that's what I guessed pc screen resolution would be. Why didn't it work? Groeten, Vic Vic Mortelmans wrote:

Re: PESO: The Laguna

Strange, how large the swans appear, even those that are swimming close to the opposite border of the river. They surely make the fascinating element in this picture. What's the 35mm equivalent of your 135mm lens on the istD? Groeten, Vic Jens Bladt wrote: I shoot panoramas. This one i for

Re: Irrelevant Poll: What do you WANT in a digital camera?

Sounds fabulous! What about adding a needle light meter? Like on my Spotmatic F. Groeten, Vic Scott Loveless wrote: Howdy gang! After spending about four lifetimes following the recent spew about non-A lens support, I started to think about what I would really WANT in a digital camera. (Thi

Re: On other photographers...

Toralf Lund schreef: > The point was that I observed many people, including some with what > looked like real cameras (if you know what I mean) using the popup flash > on this event. No I don't... I thought that real camera's didn't have pop up flashes? Groeten, Vic -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

waist-level viewfinder

Hi pdml! this question may be off-topic, though this depends on the outcome of the answers. Currently I have a number of Pentax camera's (Spotmatic SP, ES, SuperA) and a number of rangefander camera's (Canonet QL17 GIII, Zorki 4). None of these camera's offer waist-level viewing. I'd like

Re: Wide lenses and close distances

A thought that puzzled me lately may be related to this question. It's about the focal plane and the effective distance to the camera lens. When you focus a lens to 1m, it means that all subjects are in focus that are in a plane positioned at 1m from the lens and perpendicular to the lens axis

Re: waist-level viewfinder

I have an add-on myself; didn't realise that I actually *have* a waist-level-camera. But I don't really consider it a valid alternative. Vic Mortelmans wrote: 1 Pentax LX with waist-level viewfinder 2 Asahiflex (maybe still with the M39 thread?) 3 flash-shoe waist level viewfinder

Re: waist-level viewfinder

o take pictures? -- Cheers, Bob ps I'm not being flippant. -Original Message- From: Vic Mortelmans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 April 2006 21:41 To: pentax epostlijst Subject: waist-level viewfinder Hi pdml! this question may be off-topic, though this depends on the ou

Re: waist-level viewfinder

e envious when he does really difficult angles (like very close to the ground) single-handed, while I'm forced to lie in the mud to frame a similar picture. Of course it's also very handy for waist-level framing. Patrice Vic Mortelmans a écrit : Hi pdml! this question may be off-topic

Re: OT: In support of Old Stuff.

Don, I'm with you! Vic Don Sanderson wrote: This is my response to all of those "If it ain't new, it's crap" kinda folk. (PDMLers are _not_ that kind) ;-) A 37 year old Olympus 35SP took this yesterday as I was testing it: http://www.donsauction.com/PDML/Oly_SP.htm Bear in mind this is ISO

Re: Skua (lens "competition")

By the way, this seems like an amazing proof of nature's efficiency to camouflage in the environment!! (of course nature didn't take PDML photographers into account...) Groeten, Vic Vic Mortelmans wrote: Hi, why black-and-white?, seems obvious to me... there's basically onl

Re: Skua (lens "competition")

Hi, why black-and-white?, seems obvious to me... there's basically only one color in the picture, so if you turn to grayscale, you won't loose alot. Open it in an image editor and use the tool to pick colors; try to get the HSV-value of some pixels and you'll see that the H-values are very s

Re: OT: out-of-focus photo on Reuters' web site

First, I guess the photographer used a long lens, because if he would have used wide angle, he must have been on the President's lap. This already reduces DOF-range. Second, he's using available light (which definitely is better for portraits or even any photography), so probably large apertur

Re: Three legs are better than one

Strange, I didn't know of any religion or culture that celebrates new-year on may 11th? Groeten, Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some enablement this afternoon. Going to pick up my Slik Pro 700 DX tripod and short column. NOW, thats definetly it for buy stuff for this

Re: How to choose a lens to give pleasant bokeh?

A while ago I read an extensive article on the web about bokeh. If I remember right, much boils down to the the form that the aperture blades take when stopped down. The more blades there are, the more you'll reach a perfect circle of 'diffusion'. That's already a step ahead towards nice bokeh.

Re: Problem with uneven illumination

I'd rather say the first curtain slowing down at the end of it's travel, causing the second to catch up and the left side of the picture being underexposed. Groeten, Vic John Forbes wrote: > Second shutter curtain slowing down at the end of its travel? Perhaps > only occurring at certain sh

[Fwd: postprocessing filmscan with heavy grain]

|NOTE: |This may be the second time this message appears, but I think I've been |using an old address of this list? | Original Message |Subject: postprocessing filmscan with heavy grain |Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 21:07:16 +0200 |From: Vic Mortelmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: "Do not warm colours"

I doubt that minilabs are consistent. A couple of month ago, the guy at the place where I get films developed and printed was switching from AGFA to FUJI paper and on his desk were a couple of test pictures (just ordinary snapshots!) with different colour settings. He was deciding the setting b

Re: Seriously Off Topic: War is starting in Israel

Hi, Often I've been surprised how strong human feelings can be expressed in this group. People who have experienced something in their personal live, illness or happiness, death or new live, write a small message (off-topic, definitely!) and numbers of other PDML'ers respond with expressions o

Re: Holy Crap -- Pentax 10MP body

Perspective correction by (autodetected) movement of the sensor plane? Groeten, Vic Aaron Reynolds wrote: > I have just learned something about it that pretty much seals the deal > -- I'll be buying it if I have to sell a kidney to do it. It addresses > my most basic complaint about digital.

Re: Holy Crap -- Pentax 10MP body

Alarm! I think Aaron is a disguised Canon marketing guy going to attack the Pentax users market! If next year a new Canon comes to the market carrying all the features he tappe from our Pentax-loving minds, don't be surprised! Groeten, Vic Aaron Reynolds wrote: > I have just learned something

Re: Holy Crap -- Pentax 10MP body

So maybe time for another hint, Aaron? I understand that it's something you have on your 67 but never got on any digital SLR, could you tell if it is something that *IS* available on 35mm SLR (Pentax or other)? Groeten, Vic Anthony Farr wrote: > If you eliminate the possibilities that are dis

Re: Holy Crap -- Pentax 10MP body

OK. let's try to do some semantical analysis on the hints... Aaron Reynolds wrote: > It's a feature that's so much > of a no-brainer, It's not involving advanced mechanical or electronical controls or software processing. > and yet as far as I know not a single DSLR out there > at any price,

Street photography - religious objections

Hi, This forum has discussed legal objections to street photography many times. When I do street photograpy, it's not that often that I really take a frame on individual people, so I don't really bother about that. If people are in the picture, they're mostly unaware and part of a crowd or pas

Re: Street photography - religious objections

Even stronger: a while ago a professional model sued a political party (to whose opinions she did not agree), because they published a campain featuring pictures of her. The pictures were obtained from the model's agency. If I remember right, she won the case! Groeten, Vic Ann Sanfedele wro

OT recycle dull pictures

Here's a nice ad that shows how you can recycle a couple of meaningless pictures into a nice composition! http://users.pandora.be/vicmortelmans/tmp/gezichten.jpg It's amazing how the combination of pictures, showing amazed faces, can turn other pictures that would have meant nothing on themselv

Re: Scanner question

Vuescan is allright, but once you dive into the 'getting control', you've got to know its limitations as well. For example, I had a similar problem with too dense negatives. Vuescan allows to set exposure in a range from 2 (nominal) to 16 (in terms of stops: 3 stops extra exposure), but looking

Re: Your first camera

Hi, it's true, I also got into photography by having inherited the Pentax Spotmatic F after having been owned by my uncle and my father. But about the male-female thing I have another view. Are you not too easily assuming that everyone who owns a camera, is really in to photography? Anyone (m

Re: King Albert II on the dark side

Keeps him busy when abroad, where he spends most of his time *luckily* Groeten, Vic Ralf R. Radermacher wrote: > On the ocassion of the annual King's Day, Canon and Nikon Belgium have > both been appointed as official suppliers to the Belgian royal court. > > Ralf > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mai

gamma for digital printing

Hi, I use to home-develop b&w negative film, scan it, post-process digitally and then order prints via an online digital photo print service. Results are good enough for the average digital camera color print, but my b&w's never came out very well. Last time, I uploaded a b&w gamma test-pictur

Re: I feel cool today

So that's how photography becomes art! Groeten, Vic Tim Øsleby wrote: > You may remember that I told about my first public showing? It was some rock > festival images showed at a hotel. > > I just got a phone from one of those who work with the festival. She asked > if they could display the i

Pentax Takumar K mount 135mm f1:2.5

Hi can someone give a brief comment on this lens? I'm not familiar with the K-mount line of lenses. Seems something inbetween the Super-Multi-Coated Takumar (M42 screw) series and the SMC M/A Pentax-series (Bayonet), right? But it doesn't mention multi-coating. It's not a cheap entry-level len

Re: Pentax Takumar K mount 135mm f1:2.5

orest of the bunch. > Having said that, even a "bad" Pentax lens is quite usable under proper > conditions. > > Stan > > > On Nov 24, 2006, at 7:44 PM, Vic Mortelmans wrote: > > >>Hi >> >>can someone give a brief comment on this lens?

Re: Doomsday is coming upon us?

So this is a good opportunity to have a talk about the water-resistance of the old LX. That will set the mind of the ubiquitous (and getting-boring) DSLR devil machines. Groeten, Vic Tim Øsleby wrote: > Today we have had 55 days of rain here. Off course it haven’t poured down > every day, but

Silent AF280T (and Super A dial lock removal)

Hi, I'm using old gear, and I like it, but I've experienced that two features can be modified: 1) the high-frequency sound that's produced by the flash while charging the capacitator... it's quite ennoying when taking pictures of e.g. lectures. Anyone having experience in disabling this soun

Re: Silent AF280T (and Super A dial lock removal)

o press to change > mode has a tiny spring and ball bearing below it. > Take these out and the lock is gone. > Re-assemble with the big spring below the shutter release and enjoy. > > Regards, Bob S. > > > On 4/22/07, Vic Mortelmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: Silent AF280T (and Super A dial lock removal)

dial. > > That obnoxious little tab you have to press to change > mode has a tiny spring and ball bearing below it. > Take these out and the lock is gone. > Re-assemble with the big spring below the shutter release and enjoy. > > Regards, Bob S. > > > On 4/22/07,

Re: Poor man's 85/1.4

Nice, but as the article says that "at F1.4 but the edges might suffer", and considering that it's been tested on a digital camera (which still has smaller exposure area, right?), I guess it will be pretty useless on a film camera. And what's the point in stopping down? Then the 'poor man' sho

Super A and SMC A 50 f/2 - overexposure on 'A'-mode

Hi, I just developed a roll which I shot with my Super A and using two lenses: * 1st part with the Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 50 f/1.4, most shots manually metered with the lens wide open * 2nd part with the SMC A 50 f/2, most shots on program mode The shots on part 2 are all overexposed... I

Re: Super A and SMC A 50 f/2 - overexposure on 'A'-mode

elf? Groeten, Vic Mat Maessen schreef: > On 6/15/07, Vic Mortelmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The shots on part 2 are all overexposed... >> >> I don't use program mode that often (mostly aperture priority), so could >> it be that this mode is malfunction

Re: Super A and SMC A 50 f/2 - overexposure on 'A'-mode

ring, no tiny bits jumping allover the room). The red line indicates the two sliding parts that had oil inbetween them. Applied some aceton and now the diaphragma closes as snappy as it can get. Groeten, Vic Vic Mortelmans schreef: > Hi Mat, > > You're right. The blades are not

Re: Super A and SMC A 50 f/2 - overexposure on 'A'-mode

d completely by the lever, so it's the camera that controls how far the lever is moved upwards, and thus how much the diaphragma is allowed to close. Reasoning like this, I'd rather expect the cause of the problem to lie within the camera... Can anyone second that? Groeten, Vic Vic Morte

Re: Super A and SMC A 50 f/2 - overexposure on 'A'-mode

Thanks for the warning! I'm always in doubt which product is suitable to perfrom cleaning jobs on certain material and for which kind of dirt. I have at my disposal (in order or aggresiveness?): - distilled water - lighter fluid - alcohol (95%) - vinegar acid (diluted for household use) - aceton

Re: Super A and SMC A 50 f/2 - overexposure on 'A'-mode

Dag Wilko, Wilko Bulte schreef: >> - alcohol (95%) > Ethanol or ? > Keep in mind that denatured alcohol either contains methanol > (bad for plastics) or Ethanol: the one that can cause a hangover, without getting blind. >> - aceton > If you have very dirty *metal-only* parts this works wonde

Re: PUG themes for 2008

a color: purple an era: sixties a feeling: angry a shape: pentagonal a movement: rolling a position: upside down a gesture: shaking hands language: words and letters culture: ritual an age: old age music: playing an instrument a concept: change OK, that's 12. Now honest, for myself I only see a c

what's the difference between M and A?

Hi, OK, obviously I do know that A-lenses have an A-modus, allowing the camera to set the aperture (shutter-priority modes), while M-lenses always require the aperture to be set on the lens. But being in persuit of a 50mm f/1.4, I notice that the A-model is priced at least twice as high as the

Super A diaphragma misalignment - is my lever bent?

Hi, a while ago, I noticed that in Program mode, the diapghragma on my super A closed down one stop, even if the display tells me that the maximum aperture is to be used. I couldn't really figure out what would be the cause, but when examining the camera mount, I notice that the lever which 'r

Re: Super A diaphragma misalignment - is my lever bent?

Ok, so that's it. I put it straight again (is quite easy to bend) and now the diaphragma seems to operate in line with what the camera tells it to. I looked into the case further and the M42-adapter must be the cause. If it's 'screwed' into the K-mount too far, it bends the lever. This happene

Re: what's the difference between M and A?

Now that's interesting! That's must be indeed the major mechanical difference comparint both lens types. Thanks for this feedback! Groeten, VIc Adam Maas schreef: > A lenses have a fully linear aperture actuation. > [...] > A fully linear aperture is necessary for the camera to > be able to

Re: OTish: Rodinal/Agefix keeping time, and how to know if they are still good?

Adam Maas schreef: > Rodinal: If it' liquid, it's good. Has shelf life measurable in decades. Probably true, but I just noticed that when switching from a bottle that was openend about a year ago (and quite brown and some residu) to a fresh bottle requires, you may have to adapt development time

Re: LX Self Portrait

One by one beautiful pictures on this site! Groeten, Vic Christine Aguila wrote: That's a fun shot, Joe. I like it. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 8:59 PM Subject: PESO: LX Self Portrait Here is a self portrai

Re: Meerkat!

glad you didn't do my wedding pics! Groeten, Vic John Celio wrote: So I made a slight modification to my Meerkat photo to see if I could improve the background. http://www.neovenator.com/2009/01/search-for-my-two-best-photos-of-last.html (scroll down) (Do I really have to explain that thi

non-takumar portrait lens

Hello, I'm on the lookout for a portrait lens for my Pentax camera's (M42-mounted). 85mm takumars on ebay tend not to go below 200$, and I'm in doubt if this is what I should spend for just hobby photography. Some browsing on the web, pointed me to other portrait lenses that can be used, esp

interior photography

Hello, next week, I'm going to make some photo's of a house interior for a friend. The house is to be sold and the pictures are to be used as illustration for the sales announcement. Does any of you have experience with that? Some idea's of myself: - using my widest-angle lens (24mm Super-m

Re: interior photography

(((I'm quite new to the list and don't remember reading about list rules and html-formatting; nevertheless, I realized it might be more polite to use plain text. If I reset my mail reader correctly, this should be the case now.))) Hello, next week, I'm going to make some photo's of a house in

Re: Old school problem

That's something I just recently also decided to do! Nothing more frustrating than having a couple of bodies lying around, going out for some photoshooting and finding out that they're all loaded with inadept film. I like bodies to be empty (= available) when they're on the shelf. Another cons

what's so special about the pancake?

Hello, I just recently extended from screw mount into K-mount Pentax gear, and I'm wondering what is so special about the pancake 40mm lens. Frankly spoken, I think it's just the glass you would find in any point-and-shoot: a bit on the wide side, not that fast, mucht depth of field and compa

Re: interior photography

riginal Message ----- From: "Vic Mortelmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "pentax epostlijst" Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 3:51 PM Subject: interior photography Hello, next week, I'm going to make some photo's of a house interior for a friend. The hou

Re: What inspired you?

No family members or photographers inspired me. For me, the most important photographs are pieces of memory. How people were, how the city was looking. I'm very intrigued by pictures of decennia old; times I cannot remember anymore, or times I even wasn't born yet. Once you start contemplating

Re: First attempt with auto focus

Does anyone perhaps know a comprehensive resource on the web about flash photography (with Pentax, if it could?). I still feel very unfamiliar with all concepts of flash metering. Maybe you can check if my understanding so far is correct about the different existing metering types: - fully m

Re: First attempt with auto focus

Thanks! I knew the site, but only looked at it for body and lens information till now. ... Groeten, Vic Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Vic Mortelmans wrote: Does anyone perhaps know a comprehensive resource on the web about flash photography (with Pentax, if it could?). I

Re: The instigation of enablement

I'm currently trying to 'enable' me with the cheapest sort of scanner: we happen to own a Canon G2 digital camera (fast lens!, that was my major requirement when bying the digital camera) and it takes filters, so I'll by a close-up lens for it (49mm thread, so if I want, it can be used on the P

Re: The instigation of enablement

Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Using a digital camera as a scanner is generally quick and easy, once you get a setup that workbut the results are rarely as good as a cheap film scanner. The speed is the one that triggered me by most. My experience with scanning photographs on a (cheap) flatbed-sca

Re: Waist-level viewing on 35mm Pentaxes (besides the LX)?

I have been thinking about the same. Building a finder that mounts on the flash shoe and that you can look into from above from a distance of at least 30cm and see (more or less) what's in scope of the camera. The conclusion was that optically at least a mirror and a lens are needed, but I was

Re: Waist-level viewing on 35mm Pentaxes (besides the LX)?

It is feasible, just look at what the box camera's had or some of the folding camera's... Not very bright, but it was a basic waist-level viewfinder. I've got a box camera that even has two: one for portrait and one for landscape shooting! Groeten, Vic Toralf Lund wrote: Mark Roberts wrote:

Re: interior photography

house to stress available light. Groeten, Vic Vic Mortelmans wrote: Hello, next week, I'm going to make some photo's of a house interior for a friend. The house is to be sold and the pictures are to be used as illustration for the sales announcement. Does any of you have experience

Re: interior photography

I agree the critics. It's a more difficult exercise than I first thought, certainly on the presentation aspect. Technically, a wider lens would have given me much more freedom: now I was cramped inside some corner and the smaller rooms I took from outside the door. 35mm is no good for this kin

Re: PAW: People & Portraits #31 - GDG

It's nice because the guy passing by before you (with the camera just loose in your hand?) seems to attract the attention of the third sitting boy, while the two others are listening to the fourth boy. The 'attention' in the picture is balanced between left and right border. The amount of pave

raising photographers

Hello, a while ago, there was a kind of poll on the list about what inspired you to get into photography. I'd like to twist the question towards how you would inspire aspirant photographers. My kid is less than 1 year old, so it's not really an urgent question, but I guess some of you have

Re: Flash Primer

It's nice to see the results of different flash systems next to each other to compare. What I think is strange, is that the child's eyes are not filled with fear in the 'better' pictures, imagining the looks of the photographer's equipment at that phase... Groeten, Vic Cotty wrote: This

upgrading to ttl flash metering

lenses... Are there other Pentax-camera's that I should consider and that are available on the second-hand market? Thanks a lot for any information you can provide me with!!! Groeten, Vic Mortelmans

Re: upgrading to ttl flash metering

Thanks for the information on the Super Program. I'll be looking around on ebay the next couple of days. Groeten, Vic

Re: OT: Looking for mini enablement

just out of curiosity, may I ask what camera the rangefinder device will be attached to? Groeten, Vic Boris Liberman wrote: Hi! I've decided to return to film shooting for a while... To do it in style ;-), I need a range-finder unit - you know, one that clips on flash shoe - just to measur

Super A and fill-in flash?

Hallo, I own the Super A (with TTL-flash) and the AF280T. The manual of this camera says: "In metered manual mode, speeds slower than 1/125 sec. stay as are when the dedicated flash recycles. Choosing any slow speed, you can enjoy existing light photography with flash fill-in." So when I put

Re: Super A and fill-in flash?

7;s been a while since I've used the Super A, but doesn't it automatically set a 1/125 speed when you turn the AF280 on? Regards, Bob S. On 2/12/06, Vic Mortelmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hallo, I own the Super A (with TTL-flash) and the AF280T. The manual of this camera say

Re: Batch text tool

Hallo, I would say: netpbm is exactly what you need, but it may be a bit low-level. For if you don't know it: it's a (huge) set of command-line tools that convert/edit/process/analyse images. Here's the documentation: http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/direct

Re: OT: I spy with my b&w eye

Regardless of the technical qualities, I like option B best. Why: when I opened it, the first thing my eye spotted was the chain. Probably because it is actually the only contrasty object that is in focus. Apart from that, the monkey is fading into the background, which also gives it a special

Re: digital to film

Adam Maas wrote: Deterioration in storage has been an issue for negatives and slides since they appeared on the scene. True, but you have better chances to turn a deteriorate negative into an acceptable print than recovering the contents of a deteriorated cd, without using special technical

OT batch film scanner

Hallo, about: any comments from pdml-knowledge base on amateur filmscanner that can do a whole roll in single run? I very much like using my film Pentax gea

Re: OT: Photographic enablement but not Pentax.

Congratulations!! It's about a year that I've been persuaded to get into rangefinders myself... Leice is above budget anyhow, so I started off with a Canonet QL17 GIII and very recently added a Zorki 4 to the collection. Now I'm waiting for an Industar 22 (3.5/50 collapsible) and a Jupiter-3 (

Re: OT: Photographic enablement but not Pentax.

By the way, I guess you already know the rangefinderforum, to avoid the 'OT'? http://www.rangefinderforum.com/ Groeten, Vic Cesar wrote: There are not many who would understand, but photographically I wanted to let someone know how I have tried to extend myself photographically. I asked so

Re: OT: Photographic enablement but not Pentax.

OK, so maybe it's my nose that's causing trouble. On the rangefinder, I can put it *next* to the camera, so the subject can still admire it:) Groeten, Vic Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Vic Mortelmans wrote: for the viewfinder, and the left for the scene. Where as

Re: 35mm lense on 645D

Hello, Indeed, that's the logic. Now the other way around, I was wondering about digital SLR. I never saw one on the inside, but since the detector is smaller than the 35mm film area, the mirror also will be smaller. Nevertheless, they use the same lenses as 35mm film SLR's... what's all the

Re: 35mm lense on 645D

I think some Pentax design engineer is hitting himself to the head, right at this moment! Vic Mishka wrote: btw, if they added a shift mechanism to that hypothetical extention tube, that would be quite interesting, don't you think?

Re: 35mm lense on 645D

Of course, this would open up compatibility to a whole other range of lenses, maybe even Leica's. Groeten, VIc Mishka wrote: so why *that* would be problem? many DA lenses, e.g. are not very useable on film bodies anyway. i thought the idea was to be able to use older glass on new bodies. one

Re: OT: Photographic enablement but not Pentax.

Hard to pin down. It's more like a feeling. Rangefinders are more elementary. In principle, a camera is a body with a shutter holding film and a lens mounted on it. Of course that's not sufficient for practical photography (this is basically the definition of a Bessa L). You need some auxiliari

Re: Z-series feature I miss on the ist D

If both flashlights are controlled by the camera's TTL, I assume there's no correction to be done? The camera will shut off the flash(es) as soon as it thinks there's enough light, be it a dozen flashlights firing... On the other hand, if you would have e.g. one flashlight on TTL-mode and anot

Re: OT: My latest invention.

Hello, keep posting inventions! Pentax lenses do have filter threads as well, so it's not OT! Better still: put your post as html next to the picture, so non-PDML'ers can enjoy the invention via google! Myself, I've recently assembled some of the notes I made during the last few years on

Re: OT: Stay Away From This Web Site

Indeed not, if you happen to run your browser as a remote X-windows client! It was very close to hang my pc. If this isn't art, some people do have too much free time. Groeten, Vic PS. luckily there's no download version for screensaver or even desktop background jtainter wrote: and you

Re: Fatherly question

I would first try out her interest by giving her one of my own camera's. One of the lesser used, but a good starter for children, would be the (already quite vintage) Canon AF35ML. They're cheap and very basic, yet powerful. I think it was one of the first real point-and-shoot camera's, introdu

Re: OT ZIGVIEW - the world's first Digital Angle Finder

Although the idea is very nice, I'm a bit sceptical against this! Don't viewfinders have typically different enlargement ranges? Will this finder cover the whole picture as you see it in the viewfinder? Will it also include any metering information that is visible in the viewfinder, but outside

Re: PESO Unintentional photos from my recent trip

Be careful for positive comments, as you might end up framing them and putting them on the living room wall. Anyway, you could get away calling it aleatoric photography. By the way, I think the one with the car is fantastic! Groeten, Vic Rob Studdert wrote: It's been a long time between PE

Re: PESO: Pictures from a Vacation VIII

It's one way to produce a smile on a dog's face... Groeten, Vic William Robb wrote: Just when you though I had wound down. This is a just a snapshot of my dog fetching a stick. http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/peso/vacation/IMGP0583.html William Robb

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