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Digital cameras as home electronics
I hope they do. It would be a great tribute o both them and that fantastic old camera the K1000. I do worry at the number of new models and the pace of introduction of ever new and supposedly better models. Not just for Pentax but all other manufacturers. I also worry about the digital lenses ...
Posted by SPB on 28/05/2006 - 19:48
Digital cameras as home electronics
I think the Pentax production line has been quite clever, after all the current models are all very similar and in one sense the production run of them has been quite a long one. I am only referring here to the DSLRs. I have several lenses from the Vietnam factories now, and in terms of performan...
Posted by johnriley on 28/05/2006 - 20:18
Here's a professional photographer.
George, just checking did you link us up to the correct web page? To be honest I am surprised it is taken with a 2mp p&s looks more like a 0.6mp phone camera. If it had been taken on a plate camera you would see the sweat on the guys face or the individual hairs on the bull. Not to sound ...
Posted by Ofutter on 03/06/2006 - 13:49
Here's a professional photographer.
Hi all, As a confirmed (and proven with my pictures here :twisted: ) amateur with no formal teaching, I thought I'd add my tuppenny worth. :) I can see where the artistic influences can be seen in the images, although I too find bullfighting abhorent. They are a colourful, and thoughtfully ...
Posted by LiamD on 05/06/2006 - 18:52
inexpensive location lighting
Hi Don, I don't think you'll get it to work even with d cells. The problem is, and it only occured to me a few minutes ago, is that you're using a flourescent lamp. Although it will run at low power, it needs a bigger start up voltage initially, to get it going. This is almost certainly why th...
Posted by LiamD on 07/06/2006 - 11:50
inexpensive location lighting
. . . a soldering iron, and some wood, metal, sticky back plastic, and a battery holder, and you'll be done in an evening, with your own custom lighting setup. If you can some egg boxes and an old fairy washing up liquid bottle but not the soldering iron you'll qualify for a blue peter badge! :D ...
Posted by promhandicam on 07/06/2006 - 22:40
inexpensive location lighting
sticky back plastic Dead giveaway every time.. :P
Posted by LiamD on 08/06/2006 - 11:39
Camera Clubs
Jusr read the messages re Friday night Club meetings- well, the Brentwood Club had Tuesday meetings forty years ago, in a Toc H nissan hut then it had to be pulled down, then met in a pub until it was found members were not coming back into the meeting after the interval! Then the committee were off...
Posted by Peter Elgar on 17/07/2006 - 16:55
Adobe buys Pixmantec
I always smile when I see the David people using the terms "take over" and "swallowed up" when a large company buys a smaller company. Don't forget to consider that it rarely happens in reverse so it is not that unusual when Goliath buys the small. Most small start-ups dream of...
Posted by photo*ist on 04/07/2006 - 01:18
A biased forum
did you hear the story about the ass that fell into a hole in the ground? a donkey falls into an old well. he's scared so he starts braying loudly. the farmer hears him and comes to see. the farmer realizes he can't get the donkey out and rembers he'd been ordered to fill in that well so is af...
Posted by Don on 20/07/2006 - 13:19
Mac, PC, RAID5
actaully the father of one of our brides showed me his linux box. it's a killer system built totally of off the shelf components, with redhat....he gave up on ms due to viruses and spyware maladies (that can't be good for anybodies business except MS/pc technitions) and he swears he'll never go bac...
Posted by Don on 15/07/2006 - 22:51
Mac, PC, RAID5
Don, I don't know so much about the smart bit . . . after all, I'm not using a mac :) Your prowess in your chosen field of photography is obviously a talented gift that you have and good luck to you. I am not in the photographic/imaging business, a mere amateur, but an enthusiastic one. Let...
Posted by Mannesty on 16/07/2006 - 16:20
Mac, PC, RAID5
Although I've not had to use it on my machines, I do have data recovery software that i've used to help a friend or three...I bought it in case a memory card gets corrupted...another interesting mac trick.. boot the machine while holding down the letter t and it fires up in "Target" mode ...
Posted by Don on 17/07/2006 - 13:52
Ideas for new pentax models..
here' a tip that won't cost a penny and may solve your problem: hand anybody a tube, or camera, or scope and ask them to look thru it, and you'll notice the human instinct is to close one eye and hold the object up to the other eye to look. train your self to hold your camera up to one eye, while ...
Posted by Don on 20/07/2006 - 14:12
Ideas for new pentax models..
I've often thought that, when faced with a macro shot, bracketed focussing would be useful. It ought to be simple enough to instruct the modern 'intelligent' camera where you want the forward and rear focus points to be and how many 'slices' you want, then it can do the maths and take 3, 4, or 5 sho...
Posted by Mannesty on 27/07/2006 - 16:57
I wonder...
silly me..I adjusted that image then published it with the contrast corrected layer turned off!!! looks a little better now! thanx JC he's still wet from the morning dew and he hid the mouse he'd just caught, scoped me out for a while, and when he realized I wasn't after his breakfast he went bac...
Posted by Don on 21/07/2006 - 16:53
Microsoft RAW viewer for Windows Explorer
Liam, I looked for one of those a while back. Try DP magic
Posted by Ammonyte on 24/07/2006 - 12:15
Pentax shift lens
Wise advice indeed. In this case it sounds as if the seller wasn't trying to deceive as they let you back out, which probably shows that writing a proper description can be full of pitfalls as well as reading it wrongly. The classic is, of course, "Dog for sale, eats anything, loves children...
Posted by johnriley on 24/07/2006 - 16:07
My Shetland Trip
I find useful for watermarking. I've been experimenting with it and JAlbum a little The watermark can take many forms and be placed anywhere on the page. It'll also take .PSD files in and churn out watermarked 'JPG's optionally resized and resampled. Its available in both mac & windows ve...
Posted by Mannesty on 26/07/2006 - 21:58
Which Film Brand
last time I bought a film for lanscape/nature I was hooked on Agfa Ultra 50. I wonder if it's still made? I heard they bumped it upto 100 a while back, but the company's probably gone now
Posted by Don on 02/08/2006 - 18:46
