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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
10-17-2012, 03:16 PM
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Anyone else notice the similarities between the seller's and the thread starter's rather idiosyncratic grammar?
Seller: up for buy it now nice camera and lens very nice lens fits Pentax and samung K-mount cameras every thing works and in very good cond. also has case cd cost over 850.00 for all new 25.00 shipping insured 48 cont. states low buy it now Grab it quick lenes are going for up to over 400,00 used look for your self thanks for looking ! Camera has low shutter use
Thread starter: here hit the link you will know why im sayin this Sigma EX DG 24-60mm F/2.8 Lens For Pentax Samsung GX-1L DSLR Bag Very Good Cond 0085126547455 | eBay you get the camera and the lens now that lens is worth the 400 in my opinion and you get a prettey good dslr also so if you are in need of a new camera or a great lens here you go. I know if i had the money id buy it my self and i dont so i would like to see someone get it here if they can let me know. and no this is not mine i was just browsing F2.8 zooms and came across this little deal |
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Forum: General Talk
05-07-2010, 09:01 AM
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I'll wholeheartedly second the recommendation for Malwarebytes.
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Forum: General Talk
04-14-2010, 03:27 PM
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The corn starch is a thickening agent. When you put the sauce in, it's very thin, but as soon as it heats up the corn starch thickens it up very quickly. It's very common in Chinese recipes.
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Forum: General Talk
04-14-2010, 01:28 PM
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OK, I'll bite. Here's my favorite stir-fry recipe, adapted from the book "Chinese Regional Cooking" by Deh-Ta Hsiung. The original calls for chicken and uses bamboo shoots as the only vegetable. I prefer to make it with pork (although I do sometimes make it with chicken) and I like to use a combination of mushrooms and red and green peppers, sometimes substituting pea pods for the peppers. The key, as with all stir fry, is to get the wok good and hot and keep it there. I'm blessed to have a wood-fired cooking stove available for this purpose, it works great because the bottom of the wok sits right down in the flames. This is my regular "go-to" dish that I make about every other weekend from fall through spring, as long as it's cool enough to fire up the wood stove.
Pork (or chicken) in vinegar sauce
1 pound pork shoulder/country style ribs, sliced for stir fry (can substitute chicken)
2 tablespoons rice wine
2 egg whites
2 tablespoons corn starch
Sauce
3-5 green onions, chopped
2-6 cloves garlic (depending on size) diced
1 slice of ginger root, diced (appropriate size to balance with garlic)
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons corn starch
6 tablespoons vegetable or chicken stock
1 red and 1 green bell pepper, cut into pieces similar in size to pork/chicken slices
Mushrooms, sliced, for similar volume to green/red peppers
4-8 dried red chilies, re-hydrated and finely chopped (adjust according to how hot you like it, and how hot your chilies are)
Slice pork or chicken, place in a shallow dish for marinating. Mix together rice wine, egg whites and corn starch. Pour over meat, allow to marinate while preparing the rest of the meal.
Mix together sauce ingredients, set aside. (Note: It’s hard to quantify a clove of garlic or a slice of ginger root or even a green onion, as sizes and shapes vary, but keep in mind that you want these ingredients to balance each other, and adjust amounts accordingly.)
Cut up peppers, mushrooms and chilies, set aside.
Heat a couple of tablespoons of oil in a wok. When very hot, add half the meat. Cook it quickly for a minute or two until “almost done.” Remove and repeat with second half of meat. If necessary, drain off excess oil, the return first batch of meat to wok.
Keeping the wok hot, add pepper, mushrooms and chilies, and stir fry until mushrooms start to soften. Add sauce, and mix well. Continue to stir while maintaining high heat for a minute or so, until sauce thickens.
Serve with rice.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
01-27-2010, 12:47 PM
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"Never take a picture of a woman from behind."
(words of wisdom from my high school journalism teacher)
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Forum: General Talk
01-22-2010, 09:37 AM
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I can't answer the poll because what I would actually do would be a mix of 1 and 2 - "Pocket it, and call the cops." Where I live a gun found lying on the street most likely was not involved in a crime but was legally owned by someone who absentmindedly left it on the roof of his car or the back bumper of his pickup truck and then drove off. The owner probably wants it back and has reported it lost - if he even realized he lost it, that is. If I leave it lying in the street someone less scrupulous than myself may come along and just keep it for himself. So I would take it with me, then stop by the sheriff's office or give them a call to report it, and see if anyone is looking for it. If no one claims it they'll probably let me keep it. :)
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-06-2010, 01:25 PM
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OK, since you put it that way it suddenly makes sense. The only time I use auto ISO is in conjunction with TAv mode, which I only use under very specific circumstances, as I mentioned previously. Otherwise, I've always got ISO assigned to one of the control wheels.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-06-2010, 09:46 AM
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I use TAv mode with auto ISO when shooting sports with flash. This lets me keep the lens stopped down a bit to give me a little extra depth of field, while keeping the shutter speed high enough to stop action.
Maybe I'm missing something, but as Fogel said, wouldn't TAv without auto ISO be manual mode?
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
12-30-2009, 09:56 AM
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Those jpgs look good to me. Maybe I'm in the minority, but noise doesn't bother me nearly as much as blurred out detail from noise reduction.
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Forum: General Talk
12-18-2009, 10:09 AM
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As the editor and primary photographer for a small-town newspaper, I get those comments fairly regularly, usually from someone who has been trying to shoot the same event that I was shooting, without good results. I generally thank them and say that yes, I do like my camera (K20d) very much, and that it's hard to get good photos in some situations (low light, etc.) without a good camera, but when I start explaining the features of the camera and how I used them to accomplish the shot, I see their eyes start to glaze over and the idea that "All I need to get great pictures is to buy a camera like that" go right out of their heads.
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Forum: Photo Critique
11-10-2009, 10:43 AM
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I like the sheep photo very much.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
11-06-2009, 10:46 AM
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I'm with Lithos. I think there's great potential in the micro four-thirds system for a nice portable camera to bridge the gap between point and shoot and SLR, but I just can't justify the price. What I'm looking for is something like a digital equivalent of a Yashica Electro 35 or Minolta Hi-Matic.
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Forum: General Talk
10-23-2009, 11:12 AM
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I'm very wary of any eBay description that stresses "as-is, no return" so prominently, especially when coupled with a disclaimer that the seller doesn't really even know if it works or not. To your credit, you understood the gamble, but I have to say the description on this one really wouldn't have given me very high hopes for a big win. The seller's limited English language communication skills would also make me think twice about bidding on this one, as it raises the question of whether he's really getting across what he intends to communicate, and how much is being obscured by the pidgin English. It wouldn't give me much confidence in communicating with the seller, but the "as-is, no return" policy makes that a bit of a moot point.
Thanks for posting your experience. It's a good example of things to be wary of when shopping eBay.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
10-20-2009, 03:50 PM
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Thanks for the leads on the train magazines. As far as the local newspaper, that part was easy, since I'm the editor. ;) I was feeling a lot of pressure to get this shot, as I was within an hour of my "line in the sand" deadline, beyond which the paper might get bumped from the press. I'd saved a spot at the top of the front page, and had a story already in place, with anecdotes from a local man who remembered riding behind this locomotive a couple of times when he was a kid in California, back in the 1940s. Here's this week's front page so you can see the layout. (By the way, the shot of the pileated woodpecker at the bottom of the page is mine too.)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
10-20-2009, 11:22 AM
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Thanks for the kind words. I was happy that I got pretty much the effect I was looking for, and that the composition was about what I had planned, considering the speed that the train was moving. I was standing on an embankment at the base of an old bridge (now closed to vehicular traffic but open to pedestrians) across the river and shot the train just before it went under the bridge. I shot a few pictures as the train was approaching, more or less straight-on down the tracks - nothing special, but that wasn't the shot I was looking for - and then concentrated on getting the timing right for the shot I had in mind, knowing I really only had one chance. To answer Nesster's question, there was some panning involved, but the angles were complicated, and it happened pretty fast. Below is one of the shots taken as the train was approaching (it's crossing a little bridge over a creek that flows into the river) and the very next exposure taken after the keeper shot above. I was definitely panning fast on this one. The sign (I can't quite make out what it says ... ) is on one of the bridge supports.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
10-20-2009, 10:50 AM
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It's been said before but I'll say it again. Wow. I'm torn between being inspired to go shoot my own hummingbirds next summer and just giving up on ever trying to take a photo of a hummingbird ever again, because you have raised the bar so high. What lens did you use for these?
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
10-20-2009, 09:28 AM
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I took this photo of Southern Pacific No. 4449 yesterday as it passed through my town in Montana. The train is maintained by a volunteer group of railroad enthusiasts in Portland, Ore., and went to Michigan this summer for a train festival. It was making its way back to Portland when I shot this.
I knew the train was coming and had time to plan on where I was going to set up to shoot. I waited about 90 minutes in the cold morning fog for the train to show up. It must have been running behind schedule because it didn't slow down much, if at all, as it went through town. I'd guess it was going 50mph or so as it passed me. I knew I only had the opportunity for one good shot (and several bad ones), and I'm happy with what I got. I managed to frame it just about like I had hoped. The photo here is the full frame out of the camera.
Shot with K20d @ ISO 800, Sigma 24-60mm @ 24mm, f/8, 1/250.
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Forum: General Talk
10-08-2009, 08:58 AM
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Lots of pre-war and wartime German technology ended up as postwar Soviet technology through this same method. BMW sidecar motorcycle rigs, for example. Today's Ural is a BMW design that evolved at a much slower pace than those being made in Germany. It's interesting to note that the Soviets gave this technology to the Chinese back in the 1950s when they were still on speaking terms, and as far as I know the Chinese are still making 1940s-tech motorcycles that are very little changed from the originals that came out of Bavaria. I know a guy who has one - made in the 1980s I think - and it's pretty much indistinguishable from an original German World War II rig.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
09-02-2009, 03:25 PM
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I'm a newspaper guy. Years ago, I was working on deadline one evening when a powerful microburst blew through town. Horizontal rain, pieces of roofing cartwheeling down the street, trees going down all over the place. As the storm reached its peak, my editor and I went to the front door and were watching three very large, very old spruce trees across the street bending over in the wind. We just followed our instincts. He held the door open against the wind while I crouched between him and the open door and started shooting away. I got a great sequence of two of the three trees snapping off halfway up the trunk. When the shooting was over, we closed the door and looked inside, and we found our graphic design person - who clearly had experience in tornado country - under her desk. Probably the only one of us with any sense.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
09-02-2009, 03:10 PM
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
09-01-2009, 02:10 PM
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The K7 photos look better to me. I compared the images from both cameras before looking to see which was which, in an attempt to be as objective as possible, but it was clear to me which were from the Pentax and which were from the Canon. It seems the implication from some other posters here, though, is that we're supposed to think the Canon images are better. I just don't see it. To me, the images from the Pentax have better color, more detail and most importantly a texture that is lacking in the Canon shots. I suppose I could make shots from my K20d look like the Canon shots by cranking the noise reduction up to 11, but I personally prefer the Pentax look.
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Forum: General Talk
08-26-2009, 01:52 PM
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He may have done his time and served his "debt to society," but that doesn't mean I have to forgive him. If the NFL chooses to let him play, I'm OK with that. It's up to the teams in the league to decide if they want to pay him to play for them, and the Eagles have decided that they do. Now, that being said, it's the choice of fans to decide if they want to endorse the Eagles' decision by paying to see games, buying merchandise, or promoting the team through display of the team's colors and logos. If I were an Eagles fan, I surely would not be any longer, and any Eagles merchandise that I had would be in the landfill by now. To use Flippedgazelle's analogy, if the local grocery store hired the guy who mugged my mom to stock shelves, I'd take my business elsewhere. And with regard to Wheatfield's comments earlier in this thread, if Vick were to suffer some unfortunate "accident" I'd certainly not shed a tear.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
08-26-2009, 01:30 PM
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I'm keeping my eye on that S90. I'm in need of a pocket camera to complement my K20d. The Panasonic LX3 looks nice but I have a hard time justifying the price. I'll be interested to see how the S90 performs and what the price shakes out to be once it's on the market.
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Forum: General Talk
08-26-2009, 01:21 PM
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As one who has been there, I understand what she must have meant to you and what you're feeling. I know it's hard, but try not to mourn that she's gone so much as to be thankful that she lived.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-26-2009, 08:56 AM
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