Oooh lovely! Thanks Don, I'm not sure I ever knew that - it's a neat trick indeed. I do still have the manual, thankfully.

Of course I was half hoping that the reply would be negative and I could stop ebay gazing

Now I've got to find that post about the relative merits of the 1.2, 1.4 and 1.7, it's in here somewhere.

thanks again,
smithy.

Hi,

I've a bit of a dumb question about using the old Pentax manual focus lenses on the *ist DS - I was thinking about getting one of the large aperture 50mm ones off ebay to try as a portrait lens.

The only thing is, my eyesight is a bit duff. I was wondering if the focus indicator will still fire ?

Was about to do a buy-it-now but stopped myself (no pun intended...) just in time.

cheers,
smithy.

Really?? They're coming out at half the size of my PEFs, which is the only reason I was bothering to convert them. I've a *ist DS, the PEFs are 9-10mb, the DNGs are 5mb!

I'll have a look at DCRAW and see what it's like

ta,
smithy.

Hi guys,

Hope you all had a lovely Christmas if you have it, and got some nice gear!

I was just wondering if there's a PEF to DNG converter that lets you keep the same datestamp on the file externally - I just noticed that the Adobe one doesn't, which isn't helpful when you're trying to work out at-a-glance where your holiday snaps were taken. The orig. date is accessible from the Browse function of Photoshop but I'd like to see it in Explorer.

thanks,
smithy.

Ah I was going to write 'Scots Gaelic' but me dinner was ready. Cheers!

I was brough' up proppah, wunnigh

the very last bit is happy new year in Gaelic, no idea what the other two are!

Good point. I don't think that rotating thumbnails in the PS browser resamples the actual file though, as it doesn't affect its orientation on opening, so I would assume that's safe to do?

Hello Mr. Ist,

If you have just had a particular file open in Photoshop you may get these Windoze errors when you try to rename/delete/change it in some way in Explorer, as Photoshop seems to "hang on" to files for a while after you've closed them, making them seem to the operating system as though they're open when they're not. ( Of course I'm trying to replicate this just now - which has annoyed me too in the past - and it's behaving perfectly...grr.

Anyway, there's a free app called Process Explorer by Sysinternals.com which you can use to find and close apps/file handles that you know shouldn't be open.

To rotate multiple files at once in the PS browser use the same file select methods as in Windows Explorer (ie Ctrl-click for discontinuous selection, Shift-click for continuous selection) then right click for the menu.

hth,

smithy.

Lol George... putting temptation in my path

Thanks Steve, you've saved me a few quid! (Now where can I get Brain Plugin DOF Calculator v1.0 ?) Sadly no Micro Nikkor here, just 28mm and 50mm.

Hand drawings most realistic *bows*

You're right, it would be!

I'm hardly a Nikon user in any true sense as I've only put about 6 rolls of film through the FT - I'm mainly attached to those lenses, the focusing rings are soo sexy-smooth ..... shoot me......