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Seminars
Photomonk and I were exchanging e-mails [ nothing new there :) ] and he was telling me of a pair of Seminars in Calumet New York he will be going to soon . Have to say they sound good. Now I really enjoyed the one I went to in December - OK a lot was over my head at that time - but I've got the n...
Posted by techno-terminator on 30/01/2010 - 08:58
Anybody knows these shops?
What do you think of that lens Mike? If I'm honest ... well built, lovely IQ, silent focus, weather resistant. But .. VERY slow focus speed and the focus on mine was slightly out (reason I am using hacked firmware on my K10D). Is it better than the FA 1.4 it replaced .. yes, is it twice as good ...
Posted by Mike-P on 30/01/2010 - 21:04
Glamour photos
1) get a greycard. learn to use it 2) set everything to manual or tav. manual white balance, raw. high iso... skip the flash.... position yourself if possible, with the window to your back and try to shoot when the subject is at a 45 deg angle to your light (the window)... or near one ot the ot...
Posted by Don on 30/01/2010 - 22:28
Glamour photos
Expose for the skin and not the back ground
Posted by imagesteve on 01/02/2010 - 18:51
Things to Learn from Cinematography
Quite possibly something like a Canon J22 zoom lens with built in doubler F1.8 7.8 - 328mm I think that works out like a 700mm f2.8 or thereabouts on a Pentax DSLR. Canon also make for TV a 5200mm f14 reflex lens an 800 f3.8 and 2000 f11! It always amazes me how the guys covering golf matc...
Posted by gartmore on 02/02/2010 - 09:54
The Humble Instruction Book...
Just a slightly different take on this: When my colleagues and I developed a "world-beating" - and very specialized - piece of software, we wrote the Manual as an HTML file. The logic was that the file could be printed off (but as A4 size) and the user could pull up the help-file from within the p...
Posted by DoctorJeff on 31/01/2010 - 18:36
The Humble Instruction Book...
I have used both the paper manual and digital manual. Each has its benefits and problems. Where I find the print manual to be invaluable is if I am in the field, and do not have 3G/internet access or the file stored on my computer, then the paper manual is most beneficial. When I am home in my studi...
Posted by Photomonk on 31/01/2010 - 22:57
Monfrotto Tripod
Hi, I would like some advice please. I have ordered a tripod for the first time as I am just starting out with my K20d. I ordered a Monfrotto 190xdb + 486rc2 tripod kit for general landscapes etc and they sent me a 190xprob with an 494rc2 head. I have had a little look at the 494rc2 on-line ...
Posted by Lee171167 on 02/02/2010 - 16:31
A piece from the today program about Don McCullin
I heard his interview on Radio 4 this morning ... wouldn't like his dreams. Like wise Me too. "people rolled over by a tank so they look like a carpet" then he said about how he is surrounded by 6500 photographs in his house and he feel he lives in an insane asylum. He sounded to me like he co...
Posted by P_H_I_L_L on 03/02/2010 - 23:15
A piece from the today program about Don McCullin
I live close to the area where McCullin grew up. He describes it very well in his autobiography. Unreasonable behaviour. (A great read) It's still pretty rough, but not quite as bad it was, back then. I went to an exhibition of his, at the Barbican a few years ago. - A great man.
Posted by mowog on 04/02/2010 - 18:56
A piece from the today program about Don McCullin
I live close to the area where McCullin grew up. He describes it very well in his autobiography. Unreasonable behaviour. (A great read) It's still pretty rough, but not quite as bad it was, back then. I went to an exhibition of his, at the Barbican a few years ago. - A great man. I have just...
Posted by PeteL on 26/02/2010 - 18:33
Slideshow Presentation
HELP! I need to run a slideshow through a digital projector but cant configure my laptop to display a slideshow through it. Last time I tried this I had Vista on the laptop and it ran OK, now I am back to XP and apparently it wont work this way with XP, it just cuts out the projector (or second ...
Posted by fatspider on 03/02/2010 - 22:54
Pentax up to 10%+ market share in Japan
Behind panasonic isnt very promising, though i found the last comment really interesting - no sony or olympus in top ten at all... olympus seem to be shifting focus (sic) onto the pen (as their recent serious advertising shows) but sony seem to be slipping beneath the waves - i know they have seriou...
Posted by Telstar on 05/02/2010 - 20:37
Where in the world are you?
Good to have you back again George, it was becoming rather quiet....
Posted by alun on 07/02/2010 - 21:30
Where in the world are you?
Oh, and how's the golf coming along? ;-) In some ways it is a bit scary how much information you can find about people just by a quick search. A couple of months ago I had followed a link to a PU member's Flickr page. There was a photo there 'taken from my back garden'. I recognised the partic...
Posted by Daniel Bridge on 08/02/2010 - 12:42
Where in the world are you?
This is getting off topic, but I can't find me on Google. Lots of people with the same name, but not me. My husband is easier to find, but then he is on Linkedin and Facebook and stuff like that. Plus his cv is online along with various old papers he published back in the dawn of time.
Posted by Gwyn on 08/02/2010 - 13:15
UV or not UV
A. Lenses come with a hood if one is needed. B. All lenses come with a lens cap. Go figure. I shoot around the city. I take the lens cap off, take a photo or a few photos, and put the lens cap back on. On some occasions, a procession or parade or dance program, I might leave the lens cap off for...
Posted by patrickt on 06/02/2010 - 16:02
UV or not UV
The filter issue (to get back to the OP) is an which is unlikely to meet with any agreement. I use them because I usually work in very dirty and dusty places. The argument that it just adds another two surfaces to clean is spurious as only the outside face of the filter gets dirty. I am also pu...
Posted by womble on 06/02/2010 - 22:19
UV or not UV
Just going back to Kris buying Pentax filters off eBay. I thought I'd read somewhere that they deteriorate with age. Is that correct?
Posted by bforbes on 06/02/2010 - 23:49
Samsung gx20 spotted in the wild
I can't stand the man. The only thing in his favour is his camera. He reminds me a bit of the late Steve Irwin - pursuing animals in the wild beyond that which is reasonable. I'd never heard of him before this, which is why I had to look him up. Perhaps Nature will fight back again. By the way,...
Posted by George Lazarette on 07/02/2010 - 16:18
