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Forum: General Talk
05-16-2023, 09:59 AM
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UK keyboards are a bit different than US/Australian. I set the OS to read it as US/Australian. The only problem is that that gives no £ key which is a bit bothersome when I need to refer to money in England.
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Forum: General Talk
04-13-2023, 11:49 AM
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Two ninety year old men, Moe and Sam, have been friends all their lives. It seems that Sam is dying, so Moe comes to visit him.
"Sam," says Moe, "You know how we have both loved baseball all our lives. Sam, you gotta' do me one favor. When you go, somehow you've got to tell me if there's baseball in heaven."
Sam looks up at Moe from his deathbed and says, "Moe, you've been my friend many years. This favor I'll do for you." And with that, Sam passes on.
It is midnight a couple nights later. Moe is sound asleep when a distant voice calls out to him, "Moe....Moe...."
"Who is it?" says Moe sitting up suddenly. "Who is it?"
"Moe, it's Sam."
"Come on. You're not Sam. Sam died."
"I'm telling you," insists the voice. "It's me, Sam!"
"Sam? Is that you? Where are you?"
"I'm in heaven," says Sam, "and I've got to tell you, I've got some good news and some bad news."
"Tell me the good news first," says Moe.
"The good news," says Sam "is that there is baseball in heaven."
"Really?" says Moe, "That's wonderful! What's the bad news?"
"You're pitching Tuesday!"
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Forum: General Talk
04-12-2023, 04:29 PM
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Eight year old little Mary and her mother are walking through the mall together one day. "Mommy," says the little Mary, "how old are you?"
"Darling, you should never ask a woman what her age is."
"Why not?" demands the child.
"Well, that is something you will understand one day when you're grown-up."
"Mommy," asks Mary again, "how much do you weigh?"
"Never mind," answers the mother.
"Why can't you tell me?" the child inquires.
The mother replies, "Because grown-ups never talk about how much they weigh. This is something you will learn and understand someday."
"Mommy," insists the child, "can you tell me why you and Daddy got divorced?"
"Darling," responds the mother in exasperation, "that's something still very painful for Mommy, and I really just can't talk about it now."
A few days later, Little Mary recounts this conversation to a friend at school. The friend explains how to overcome these problems...
"All you have to do is get your mother's driver's license. It has all the information about any grown-up you want on it. You just read it like a
report card and it'll give you anything you need." the schoolmate tells her.
So little Mary does as her friend recommended. That night she sneaks into her mother's room while her Mom was cooking dinner. She rummages
through her purse and finds the drivers license. After examining it carefully she
walks up to her mother and says, "I know how old you are! You are 35!"
The mother is very surprised.
"And, I know how much you weigh. You weigh 136 pounds, right?"
The mother is shocked.
"And, I know why you and Daddy got a divorce."
The mother, dumbfounded asked, "Really? Why?"
"It's because you got an F in sex."
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Forum: General Talk
04-01-2023, 05:41 AM
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That reminds me of my Scottish colleague back then when I was living in the UK. He used to say one gets the hint of how to do a Scottish accent after about 5-6 pints, and the more you have the better your Scottish is.
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Forum: General Talk
05-15-2023, 11:43 PM
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Forum: General Talk
05-10-2023, 05:02 PM
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Forum: General Talk
05-05-2023, 12:55 PM
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"Late again!" the third-grade teacher sternly said to little Ranger.
"It ain't my fault this time, Miss Russell. You can blame this 'un on my Daddy. The reason I'm three hours late is my Daddy sleeps naked!"
Now, Miss Russell had taught grammar school for thirty-some-odd years. Despite her mounting fears, she asked little Ranger what he meant by that.
Full of grins and mischief, and in the flower of his youth, little Ranger and trouble were old friends,...... but he always told her the truth.
"You see, Miss Russell, out at the farm we got this here low down fox. The last few nights, he done ate six hens.
Last night, when Daddy heard a noise out in the chicken pen, he grabbed his double barreled shot gun and said to my Ma, "That fox is back again... I'm a gonna git him!'' "Stay back," Daddy whispered to all us kids!
"My Daddy was naked as a jaybird -- no boots, no pants, no shirt! To the hen house he crawled, just like an Injun on the snoop. Then, he stuck that double-barreled 12-gauge shotgun through the window of the coop.
As he stared into the darkness, with a fox on his mind, our old hound dog, Rip, had done gone and woke up and comes sneaking up behind Daddy.
Then, as we all looked on, plumb helpless, old Rip done went and stuck his cold nose in my daddy's butt!"
"Miss Russell, we all been pluckin' chickens since three o'clock this mornin!
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Forum: General Talk
04-23-2023, 07:34 PM
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I think this is a good tip
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Forum: General Talk
05-13-2023, 10:18 AM
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
05-15-2023, 06:04 AM
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...and 10 years after this post: I am still using it.
I was photographing my daughter with it when she was born and I did the same this week, when we celebrated her 18th birthday :)
viva Pentax
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
05-15-2023, 12:41 PM
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I've been shooting Pentax since about 1968. {K-1000} Do they still make other camera brands?
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Forum: General Talk
05-07-2023, 12:13 PM
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
09-27-2022, 05:23 PM
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Says the man from the land of the road train.
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Forum: General Talk
09-26-2022, 02:10 AM
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A sweater I bought was picking up static electricity, so I returned it to the store. They gave me another one, free of charge.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
08-18-2022, 06:23 PM
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Good morning all, I'm very tired.
Last night I had a terrible dream that I had to make a thousand pancakes.
Yes, I was tossing and turning all night long.
And my wife is always unnecessarily on me about doing household chores.
I think if a man says he'll fix it, he will.
There's no need to remind him every three months.
This week I want to talk about shooting at airshows or from the road outside an airport.
You know that in my sports and action photography I'm most often AF-C, single focus point selected, central with Expanded Area and Hold on medium, back button focus and looking for a strong line to lay the point on. I don't want a camera to try and guess what's important in the scene for me.
Where you can get away with almost default camera settings is aircraft.
And there are two big reasons. One is that in the sky (especially a blue one) there is a clean background, with nothing for focus points to lock on other than the subject. You can even get away with using all the focus points in Auto.
The second is that even if there is no nice coloured line on an aircraft, there will be an outside edge, and because of the extreme distances, the depth of field will easily cover both the back of the plane and the front in the shot.
The planes move predictably, so I think like car racing, this is a great scenario for learning the key physical act of action shooting - smoothly panning the camera keeping a focus point over the same line or edge.
In the shot below, I'd do a lower shutter speed next time because unlike jets, with piston engined planes it's nice to have some motion blur to a propellor. You can see there's a little there, but to me, not enough.
To finish with, there's the story of the guy who goes to the supermarket and notices an attractive woman waving at him. She says hello.
He’s rather taken aback because he can’t place where he knows her from.
So he says, "Do you know me?"
To which she replies, "I think you’re the father of one of my kids."
Now his mind travels back to the only time he has ever been unfaithful to his wife and says, "My God, are you the stripper from my bachelor party that I made love to on the pool table with all my buddies watching while your partner whipped my butt with wet celery?"
She looks into his eyes and says calmly, "No, I’m your son’s teacher."
Find the rest of the series here: Clackers' Beginners Tips (Collected) - PentaxForums.com
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
09-19-2022, 01:00 PM
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I think that's why a reset might help. The mode dial and other dials are not conventional rotary switches. They just send something like "one click clockwise" to the camera electronics. If a system like that loses track of where it is, it would behave like that. If you can't convince it to reset, print up a new mode dial on a sticker.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
09-19-2022, 08:56 PM
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I see a strong possibility for an accidental wrong setting which then will be solved with a factory reset.
Nevertheless did I come across several dirty dials in Pentax K-bodies which behaved similar as @Liney's K3 mode-dial.
I had this with E-dials, the On-Off-Switch/Shutter-Release-Button and (only) twice with the "Mode-Dial" In all cases there it was dirt.
Such a system can lose track of where it is when dirt is involved.
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Forum: General Talk
01-06-2022, 11:46 AM
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In some places marijuana is now legal but haircuts aren't (due to Covid restrictions).
It's taken more than 50 years, but the hippies are winning.
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Forum: General Talk
01-21-2022, 08:28 AM
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Weirdly last night we were watching some clips from Rocky Horror on you tube (not even sure how it came up) and the last two were Eddie R.I.P Eddie (Meatloaf)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
10-01-2019, 12:24 AM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-09-2021, 09:29 AM
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A close-up of some money note ;-)
But isn't illegal to do that in your country?
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-09-2021, 02:22 PM
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From the nose and lips I know it -
Mary Gilmore, Australian poet!
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Forum: General Talk
12-28-2021, 02:51 PM
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Exactly what I thought off first - but The Corries version was in my mind :p
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Forum: General Talk
01-18-2022, 04:53 PM
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You don’t need a parachute to go skydiving.
(Unless you plan on doing it a second time.)
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Forum: General Talk
01-21-2022, 11:38 AM
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