marc_van_lommel

Next time you go out and try to buy a Minolta ... remember it's Sony now ... :)

Photography is the same as riding a bike ... you never unlearn it ... I know, I've been away from it for several years and just returned in May 2006, I'm doing great ... just needed to switch from film to digital and all it's hocus-pocus but I'm back, stronger than before ... with the Sony Alpha 100 and 15 year old Minolta AF lenses.

Oh, and from what I can read ... trying to cash in makes you a suspect and you can get in trouble with the justice department.

Yes, and still ... people fall for it and ask questions ... reading the page might make them a little more alert when they get e-mails and request for refunds on a money order ...

I found this web page about the 'Nigerian' scams, recently many of you have

been approached and know already, but still take the time to read it ...

 

http://www.usps.com/postalinspectors/mofeatur.htm

You better watch out what you photograph in Taiwan ... I was prohibited by a women at a public nightmarket on the street, of taking pictures of raw dead meat on scewer ... :)

Bull ... it's a 100 with a 'shopped grip ...

If they send you the goods first ... otherwise it's not that safe. Try getting your money back ...

Now that must be a first ... and we'll be having our honeymoon in thesame hall we're having our wedding ceremony

Really funny e-mails ... family in Brazil and Germany ... shopping in Nigeria ... and all the spelling and grammar errors ... and I really didn't know that Ireland was in Europe, go and figure ...

That's why, when I upload pics to any site ... I use 900x*** for horizontal (landscape), and 800x*** (portait) for vertical ... never have a problem.

Don't some of them have an accomplice in the US where you should mail or send the money to?

 

I guess that the justice system would be very interested in having a talk with them ... they are probably illegal.

Did you mean you can't find google base?

 

http://www.google.com/base/help/about.html

Nikon is not an electronics manufacturer ... Pentax is not an electronics manufacturer ... both companies use sensors made by Sony I heared ... the difference is made by the software, lenses and the person behind the tool

Looking at the picture only ... this is a no brainer ... and he probably used 1600 ISO to get the background illuminated well ...

If the competition is there you should be there ...

Photo processors have a special hook to retrieve the film form the cannister ... it's almost impossible to open the it without damaging the ring that keeps the cannister closed ...

I had problems with two SD Twinmos 2 Gb (x133, x150) cards - used a SD->CF adaptor, one I had for six months the other for 4 months, both gave me errors and almost always the same errors, sometimes when full I got garbled named folders and a mess of files, nothing could read it or copy, but photorec got all pics off except the few times that it had to drop a couple of faulty RAW images, but the jpegs came always off. I shoot RAW+JPEG ... makes me feel safer.

 

BTW, I'll never buy 4GB or higher capacity cards, 2 GB is enough to lose in one go. Unless they aren't made anymnore in the future, than I have to go with more than 2 GB. Only when you shoot sports or something at multi pic shots, than it's probably better to get 4 GB or higher.

I got 150% back with photorec and (testdisk), if the card is not broken I guess you have a good chance of recovering everything ... it recovers RAW and Jpeg ... and more ...

 

Really, it recovered far more pics than I made that day, even pics I deleted several months ago and had not yet overwritten ...

Minolta (Konica) too was a camera manufacturer and sold out to Sony, Pentax now is bought by Hoya, who says they are going to stay ... Sony is for a big part a digital camera manufacturer and could gain from the dslr market ... I guess Sony will go for it long term ...

 

I bought the Sony because I owned Minolta lenses and it's an excellent dslr for what I use it for ... I would buy the next Sony brings on the market if it's an upgrade to the Alpha ...

I couldn't try it out yet as I can't get it downloaded, tried 3 times and download failed 3 times thanks to my incompetent provider ...

 

I hope to get it later on ..

http://www.cameraquest.com/pentorig.htm

 

Just found this on-line ...

Asahi is a glass manufacturer ... is this why Pentax was associated with Asahi, making the glass fro their lenses?

Just found the answer on PN

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=000Giu&tag=

Tungsten is used indoors at yellow redish light so it's supposed to be blue outside because color temp is higher ... I don't know the exact filter to use but it should be yellow/orange ... I forgot the number ... just google for it ...

Well, good luck to you ... but I don't think there is a big enough market for advertising and contributors with quality pictures/articles out there to succeed ... but hey, who am I ... I could be wrong.