Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/26

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Subject: [Leica] More Digital Pentax
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Wed Apr 26 10:55:23 2006
References: <1be504db0604251846r5211140cj100a354c30e05bee@mail.gmail.com>

Looking at these I want to be boyscout again.
When's the next Jamboree. And will she be there? :-)

Thanks for showing,
Philippe



Op 26-apr-06, om 03:46 heeft Phil Swango het volgende geschreven:

> For those interested, a few more Pentax DSLR shots, starting here:
> http://pswango.smugmug.com/gallery/825205/1/66319112
>
> All 3 were taken around dusk with a Pentax 50mm f/1.7 lens from  
> around 1979
> used on a new *istDL.  Manual focus and exposure.  All were  
> underexposed by
> 2-3 stops due to my error, and had to be rescued using curves in  
> PS.  The
> first two are downsized for the web and minimally post-processed  
> with curves
> and USM.  The last one is a center crop of about 1/4 of the image.   
> If you
> view it at "original" size in Smugmug, you can see what the camera  
> delivered
> in actual pixels (after curves but no USM).  Lowest jpeg quality  
> was used in
> camera so these are sort of "worst case".  I was running out of  
> memory on a
> 16 Meg card.  I haven't had a chance to try raw or best jpeg yet.
>
> Tomorrow my daughter uses the camera for an editorial assignment  
> for a local
> mag -- her first with the new toy.
>
>
> (apologies for cross posting if you're also on Daniel's Rollei list)
>
> --
> Phil Swango
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> Albuquerque, NM 87108
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