ranjith pallegama

<p>Dear June, I too do not agree with your therapist fully. Avoidance should be avoided ASAP. You should get back to your usual life as quickly as possible. As someone suggested take things positively, think that everything happens for our own good. You will surely do wonderful wedding photography and good luck for similarly wonderful life.</p>

The PN offers only two modes of payement.

Use directly the credit card

Or

through Paypal. In either of those, I have the same problem. I am still awaiting a proper reply from PN administrators. Can somebody show me another way or an e-mail address that I can write to the PN administrators.

 

They had my Gold Medal Photo in a web site in 2004. I will soon upload it to my folders.

 

Thanks a lot for you guys

Ranjith

Hello,

 

I have been a member of the photo.net for more that 3 years, when I was living

in Japan. But since last October I moved to Sri Lanka, and my membership

expired recently. Although I want to continue subscription to the Photo.net,

my country name (Sri lanka) is not on either on the Photo.net nor on the

paypal drop down menu. Although Sri Lanka is such an insignificant country, I

would like to continue my membership if an opportunity is provided.

 

I am a Senior Lecturer of the Faculty of Dental Sciences, University of

Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. As I am very enthusiastic about photography, I started

a photography club at the faculty and guiding some beginners too. Further I

have won a gold medal in an international photography competion held in Japan.

 

Therefore, pls let me know how I can contribute to PN in order to continue my

membership.

 

Thanking You

Sincerely

 

Ranjith Pallegama

 

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Dr. Ranjith W. Pallegama (B.D.S, Ph.D)

Senior Lecturer

Division of Physiology

Department of Basic Sciences

Faculty of Dental Sciences

University of Peradeniya

Sri Lanka

 

E-mai: ranjithwp@pdn.ac.lk

Tel: +94-81-2397207

Mobile: +94-77-3561840

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As I use Sony DSC-V3 I second Frank's words. If we calculate the depthe of feild with the known formulae it become from almost 1m to infenity.

 

Regards

 

Ranjith

Joseph, thanks for the facts that you have mentioned, and what I mentioned was something I had read somewhere. But, may be you are right; in that case, do you think that or have you any experience that even the 20Da or a modified DSLR (where the IR blocking filter is replaced by a another piece of glass with the same thickness) produce the hot spot with average zoom lenses? It will be very interesting to know. Thanks again

Ranjith

Mike, as far as I know the hot spot is produced by the the long exposure time required by the digital SLRs. Do not forget that these cameras have a IR blocking filter to improve the quality of the normal images produced by the visible light. It is my experience that the faster canon lenses such as 50mm mark II produces no or at least negligible degree of hot spot. Please check my following images.

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/2711028

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/2711098

 

But still even these faster lenses require a quite a long exposure with higher ISO and the result is an image with higher degree of noise. There was a list of canon lenses that are acceptable to IR photography somewhere on the net, but I have lost the link. I hope somebody will post it here for the benefit of all.

 

Canon 20Da does not have the IR blocking filter as in the case of modified digital SLRs and takes only a fraction of a second to get an acceptable exposure, and hence does not produces the hot spot. I hope you can get this information verified by some other source too.

 

Ranjith

I have a very short but reasonably succesful results with digital IR.

 

http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=423990

 

I started with 10D which was a failure. Then I studied the subject and found out that different digital cameras have different sensitivities. Some cameras are not acceptable at all for digital IR. I used canon powershot G1 with success, and now using sony dsc-v3 with veryy good success. As matt told initial image has different tints, for some cameras it is red and for some others greenish etc. So these need considerebale amount of processing, and the easiest is to turn to grey scale. There are several photographers who post very good digital IR work on the PN, and the most significant is Tony

 

http://www.photo.net/shared/community-member?user_id=849714

 

He too use sony 717 and V3. After all Canon has released IR only camera 20Da and I do not know or I have not seen images produced by that camera.

 

Regards

 

Ranjith

Hello,

 

I too live in Tokyo and have plans to buy this from Yodobashi Camera. But it is my experience buying various items from yodobashi that they never mention that these items will work with English OS. I think they are reluctant to take that responsibility. But when I tried things really worked. So, most probably I will buy this printer too before I go back in this september. Good luck

 

Ranjith

Translation of the major specifications with my available japanese knowledge

glossy pigment printer. has "Adobe RGB mode".

resolution (dpi): 5760?~1440

paper size: L size /2L size/ post card/A6/ A4/A3/A3 /

ink type: 8 independent color

CD-R/DVD printing:

interface: IEEE 1394 interface ?~1/USB 2.0 interface ?~1 (USB 2.0 high speed /USB 1.1)

external size (mm): 615?~314?~219 (W?~D?~H) mass: Approximately 11.7

kg

 

Retail price in Japan 69800 yen (621 US$ (according to today"s rate)

Thanks

Ranjith

Here is another link to the newly relesed one

 

http://www.yodobashi.com/enjoy/more/i/cat_8427287_75_14450289_14450375/26226148.html

 

I am sorry it is in Japanese. ranjith<div></div>

I am a Sri Lankan, now living in Japan. I confirm all the above information. In addition, I would recommend you to visit another ancient city called Anuradhapura, where you will find much more interesting places for photography. I do not think that you can miss the hill country, which is full of beautiful tea estates and waterfalls. If you explore through tour guidebooks you will find much more places. By renting a car with a reliable and an experienced driver will be the easiest way, and you can get that service through your hotel or traveling agencies.

 

And if search Internet you may find a large number of photos taken in Sri Lanka. In addition, if you need any specific information I am glad to help you. Have a nice time in Sri Lanka

Thank you very much for the time spent answering my question. And also, Adams, Thanks a lot for forwarding the link to that excellent folder.

 

Once again, Thanks a lot to all.

 

Ranjith

I have just bought a 28-135 IS. But when I reviewed information about

using IS, it appears that controversies exist. Could someone please

answer the following questions.

1) Will I get a lower image quality if I keep IS on when a

tripod or flash (speedlite/built in) is in use?

2) Or should I use IS only when I shoot at lower speed than

1/focal length (rule)?