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Comment by lonegroover posted on New uses for old lenses at 23/01/2010 - 11:30
Dangermouse wrote:
Most of the Pentax-F lenses are a good bet, check that the lettering next to the distance scale includes the letters "SMC" as not all had this coating, they did a couple of non-SMC zooms that were usually bundled with SF7s. I have one, and it's a pretty decent performer but struggles to bring much vibrancy to a scene.
I have one of these as well, got it with a second-hand SF7 about ten years ago that I think I still have somewhere. Here are two pics taken with it attached to my K100D Super in November.Most of the Pentax-F lenses are a good bet, check that the lettering next to the distance scale includes the letters "SMC" as not all had this coating, they did a couple of non-SMC zooms that were usually bundled with SF7s. I have one, and it's a pretty decent performer but struggles to bring much vibrancy to a scene.
Comment by lonegroover posted on full frame zoom at 21/01/2010 - 11:50
davidtrout wrote:
[IMG]http://i799.photobucket.com/albums/yy273/Davidtrout2/TyneJewellsver2copy.jpg[/IMG]
I take your point about the position of the lamps Alan so I rearranged them a little. The steeple of St Mary's Cathedral stays put I'm afraid.
Nice - I really like that one. I would be tempted to try moving the spire so that it's dead centre between the two bridge columns. If being very picky, I might point out that the third lamp is slightly too big - I think it was cloned from the leftmost one? It could possibly have been resized slightly before it was pasted in.[IMG]http://i799.photobucket.com/albums/yy273/Davidtrout2/TyneJewellsver2copy.jpg[/IMG]
I take your point about the position of the lamps Alan so I rearranged them a little. The steeple of St Mary's Cathedral stays put I'm afraid.
I also like the metal stairs image, but I think the bin spoils it. A quick and dirty crop by scrolling it out of the bottom of the browser works well for me.
Comment by lonegroover posted on Around Newcastle at 21/01/2010 - 11:29
smc wrote:
Where?
Sorry - my web server was down this morning. I blame BT Where?
Comment by lonegroover posted on K100D Super and SMC-A 35-70mm F3.5-4.5 at 20/01/2010 - 22:26
I bought a 'Veho' USB slide / negative scanner a couple of years ago, and, for the benefit perhaps of someone who might have encountered this thread via Google, I'd suggest that it should be avoided. It seems to overexpose light regions of certain images, so that any detail is blown out - uniform white skies are all too common on some snaps, for example. Some images look fine, to be fair.
I very much agree with the earlier comment that it's a time-consuming activity. Every negative or slide I've tried needed a good seeing to with GIMP's clone tool (or the equivalent in the provided Windows software, which works very well to be fair).
Still - it was cheap, and you get what you pay for, I suppose.
This is one of the worst examples from the slides I transferred a while ago. This young man is my older brother, pictured in the late '50s or early '60s.
I very much agree with the earlier comment that it's a time-consuming activity. Every negative or slide I've tried needed a good seeing to with GIMP's clone tool (or the equivalent in the provided Windows software, which works very well to be fair).
Still - it was cheap, and you get what you pay for, I suppose.
This is one of the worst examples from the slides I transferred a while ago. This young man is my older brother, pictured in the late '50s or early '60s.
Comment by lonegroover posted on Slides to Digital. at 18/01/2010 - 19:00
bwichmawr wrote:
Any one else verging on an addiction to "old" manual focus lenses, both PK bayonet fit and M42+adapter?
I've always loved using my K100 D Super with the kit lens, but slotting on a sub £10.00 bargain off e-bay and enjoying the almost forgotten delights of a nicely weighted focusing ring making the bright view-finder image slide in and out of view, the reassuring balance of a metal lens and the wonderful results (to me, anyway) has reinvigorated my photography.
My own reason for using a prime was that I found the kit lens too bulky, and the reason for using an old manual focus one was that it would be a lot cheaper! A 28mm KA is attached to my K100D Super now. It is very nice to use, I agree. I've also used the 50mm prime that came with my Program A all those years ago.Any one else verging on an addiction to "old" manual focus lenses, both PK bayonet fit and M42+adapter?
I've always loved using my K100 D Super with the kit lens, but slotting on a sub £10.00 bargain off e-bay and enjoying the almost forgotten delights of a nicely weighted focusing ring making the bright view-finder image slide in and out of view, the reassuring balance of a metal lens and the wonderful results (to me, anyway) has reinvigorated my photography.
Comment by lonegroover posted on New uses for old lenses at 18/01/2010 - 13:26
wasleys wrote:
"I have to say that good use of smilies can deflate an argument or even prevent it arising."
"There are times where you need a "tongue in cheek" smiley."
I don't think those arguments stand close examination.
If a person makes a conscious decision to use a deflationary smiley that means they have realised that the comments they are making are contentious. They would therefore do better not to make the comments in a contentious manner - or at all - in the first place.
No, that's not correct. It means that they know that the comments they are making are open to misinterpretation of tone."I have to say that good use of smilies can deflate an argument or even prevent it arising."
"There are times where you need a "tongue in cheek" smiley."
I don't think those arguments stand close examination.
If a person makes a conscious decision to use a deflationary smiley that means they have realised that the comments they are making are contentious. They would therefore do better not to make the comments in a contentious manner - or at all - in the first place.
Comment by lonegroover posted on A question about online forums (nothing to do with photography) at 10/01/2010 - 17:03
Looks the part, doesn't it? But it's been displaced by a 28mm prime now.
Comment by lonegroover posted on K100D Super and SMC-A 35-70mm F3.5-4.5 at 10/01/2010 - 11:46
You don't need a super-duper video card for photo editing or video editing. The former doesn't need a lot of resources, and the system CPU power and RAM are much more of a concern for the latter.
That said, if you're going to change your video card anyway, I'd go ATI or NVIDIA.
That said, if you're going to change your video card anyway, I'd go ATI or NVIDIA.
Comment by lonegroover posted on What graphics card? at 08/01/2010 - 19:33
bretti_kivi wrote:
@lonegroover: perl is available for windows - cygwin makes lots of stuff possible. Just installed it yesterday on my work Win7 machine and it runs very well, thanks...
findimagedupes used the ImageMagick toolkit, which is also available for Windows - but it might need a bit of hacking to work.[/quote]@lonegroover: perl is available for windows - cygwin makes lots of stuff possible. Just installed it yesterday on my work Win7 machine and it runs very well, thanks...
Comment by lonegroover posted on Duplicate finder? at 08/01/2010 - 19:25
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