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Forum: Pentax Q
09-08-2020, 10:13 PM
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Forum: Pentax Q
09-01-2020, 06:40 PM
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Forum: Pentax Q
08-21-2020, 01:49 PM
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OK, thank you for that. I have just tried with a Tamron mirror telephoto on a full frame but not yet on the Q-S1. And as the jump in magnification on the Q-S1 is crop factor I am not really too interested in trying it. Maybe just as an exercise but not for any continued serious work.
Thank you again for your help.
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Forum: Pentax Q
08-20-2020, 05:34 PM
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OK, I'll admit to being not quite as bright as the average bear. What is the focus problem? Set to infinity and shoot is not how it works?
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Forum: Pentax Q
08-16-2020, 07:12 PM
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You have the eye for it. The camera is secondary. Great stuff. I loved the pic of the Hosta.
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Forum: Pentax Q
08-15-2020, 03:45 PM
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Great composition and color. I really like the 02 lens but you have convinced me to get back to the 01 again. The nice thing is that each will fit in a jacket pocket.
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Forum: Pentax Q
08-04-2020, 07:12 PM
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It may be that Metabones is waiting to reach a certain number of pre-orders. When they reach a good profit point they will start banging them out. If they do not get enough orders they may just shine the whole thing on. After all, how great a difference can there be in the manufacture of ones for Nikons and ones for the K > Q design?
I hope you guys get your Metabones. From the three photos posted, all muddy, I think I will pass. Let me ask, does Metabones degrade the color a bit or are those just three bad photos?
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Forum: Pentax Q
08-01-2020, 03:06 PM
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You did yourself proud. Great color and composition. Thanks.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-30-2020, 03:50 PM
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I did not know the second meaning of "tirez." No doubt from pull the trigger. French has some amazing word games and expressions. Two of my faves are, "L'esprit de finesse" and "L'esprit d'escalier." Well do I know the second one. The Pennsylvania Dutch address this as, "Too soon old, too late smart." Not exactly the same but sorta. It's very hard to duplicate in another language what is so facilely said in French.
Par example, Stravinsky was lecturing a grad class in music at the University of Texas and got stuck groping for a word. He asked if anyone spoke Russian in the class. Someone did and after a short colloquy in Russian said, "Oh, you do not yet have the word in English. The word is connoisseur. We have a huge vocabulary in English but so many are borrowed words.
À la prochaine.
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Forum: Pentax Q
07-29-2020, 09:57 PM
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Does it rain much in Astoria? The precip figures run from 67" to 85" a year. That's talking about some serious rain, folks. The upside is that it washes away the effects of the salt air. The downside is that it washes away just about everything else, like houses which are known to slide downhill in our own peculiarly greasy mud which helps this to happen. One knucklehead builder put in a development on a hillside. One house slid downhill onto the HS athletic field.
And then there is the rust. Ran across this fellow today. Shoulda had the 02 zoom. I love that lens.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-29-2020, 09:17 PM
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That's kind of unfortunate that the little snack shop moved from breaking bread to breaking pipes. It is a micro-view of the nation, of the continent, of the world. You are fortunate to be under a national plan and have provincial healthcare plans. I remember the complaints from my time in Quebec but even a slightly flawed plan is better than none at all. "Peace, Order and Good Government" is not just a good idea, it is a good way to run a country.
Bon chance, bon courage
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Forum: Pentax Q
07-23-2020, 09:37 PM
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Over on the Washington side of the Columbia this afternoon and found that the wild peas are in bloom. These pretty little rascals are all over the place. And the fruit, the pea itself, is edible but tiny. I also installed a nice new 27" monitor and the resolution and color capture of the Q-S1 has improved. :D
The picture is with the Pentax 01 prime lens which finally arrived after being mailed in April.
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Forum: Pentax Q
07-22-2020, 11:29 AM
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Way cool! I'll have to try that feature. Thanks.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-17-2020, 11:27 PM
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I was appaled to learn that ~80% of the US population has no passport. OTOH, when you can drive ~3,000 miles in one direction and never leave the country a passport is not much thought of. I had some Egyptian francophone friends in Ville St. Laurent and their French, "school French", was excellent. And they could not understand why I did not keep up my French in the US. As you know folks who immigrate often try to shed their Old World connections and manners in a hurry. They want very much to be American.
In retrospect I find Canada more human, more humane than here in the US. And when those unemployed folks have the medical insurance lapse they will no doubt re-appraise the provincial health system in Canada and single-payer in general. The US has a lot to learn and hopefully will pick up a lot in the course of the coming blood bath. While I do not advocate for the SoCred solutions I do believe there are better ways to support the sick, hungry and homeless. But that is politics and lets stay out of that. The language wars are enough. :lol:
As for breaking down, we were heading south to the US right after I had taken my final fall exam. About thirty miles south of the city the car ran out of gas. She said she filled it before she left. Anyway, some old real French Canadian stopped in an ancient Chrysler Newport with four regular tires and a coathanger for an antenna. It was a blizzard dropping a foot an hour. It was snowing. I could not understand much of his Juoal but he understood my meager French, took me to a gas station, we got gas, he drove me back and refused anything other than a big "Merci!." Regular tires in a foot an hour blizzard. Bienvenue au Quebec.
While in McGill I had some Canadian History classes, for my own good. ;o) Did you know there were two Lords Duhram? Suppose some clerk in the Foreign Office put that letter to Durham in the wrong pigeon hole? Think about it. I loved Canadian History. No bad feelings. And. Amor de Cosmos, Jesus Murphy, Louis Riel, the great Sir John A. who built Canada with that railroad and who did kill D'Arcy McGee? It wasn't Whelan. As for the French-Canadians in New England, about a third of Quebec migrated south during the last Great Depression and they were the young, bright and motivated ones. It set back the province some.
Anyway, back to work here in Oregon, à la prochaine.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-16-2020, 08:30 PM
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Richard, mon vieux, peur pas, I can swear in French Canadian just fine but I have never seen the words in Joual written out. I have only seen it in "school French." I workled a summer in a warehouse out by the old Bluebonnets track. It was all French Candian and one illegal immigrant, me. I was not supposed to be working on a student visa. Anyway, I learned the whole list of French Canadian swear words in that warehouse. IIRC it starts with Tabarnak! and works its way through various other religious references until it gets to "Sac*****t" and when you heard that one from the foreman, Tony, it was time to find a foxhole. And I guess you know that at one time CHOM in Montreal would spend one day a year using all the French-Canadian swearwords over the air. It was an anglophone station and the folks there thought it was great fun. I doubt it was much listened to at the north end of the island.
This was all during the time of Bill Vingt-deux and later Bill Un, along with "Je sais mes droits", etc. Times were tense and Levesque and the PQ almost took power. I have little doubt the US was involved in keeping the PQ out of power. Having the St. Lawrence controlled by a group of PO'ed French-Canadians would have been scary. And you are aware of the contretemps between the US and Canada in our shared history. It is unknown down here. About half this nation cannot even tell you where Canada is in relation to the US. No fooling. But you knew that, eh?
I had the good fortune of a loan of a nice Leica CL, the Minolta one, while in Montreal, actually Ville St. Laurent, and took a lot of pictures of the great murals which had only recently been put up. As you know, Montreal has a great art scene. And bagels on St. Viateur out on the Main. Le Roi des Frites is long gone from the Main. Should have been an historic site. Ben's smoked meat is gone, too. I suppose it is more French. And as they say out in Cartierville, "Ma faīt", Joual for "Je me fête" or "(I care so little) I sing about (celebrate) it." Learned that one along with the swear words.
And remember, "Peace, Order and Good Government" is not just a good idea, it is how to run a country. ;o)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-12-2020, 01:15 PM
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This Sassenach kens a wee bit o' the tongue o' the Bard of Ayrshire. And has been to his home, and is familiar with mince with chappit tatties and bashed neeps.
As for French-Canadian French it became a problem for me, too, after two years in Montreal. I would be asked in France if I were from Canadian because some of the accent had crept into my poor French. That and the use of the French-Canadian "eh" which sounds not much like it looks. And no matter how hard I looked I could find no poutine at all. Tabernacle! ;)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-12-2020, 12:18 AM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-11-2020, 06:41 PM
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My time in Montreal, two years, and in France a little south of Paris, two and one half years, the word meant a cheap snack like a sandwich, or a ham sandwich, jambon. I must have been in the wrong neighborhoods. Always a distinct possibility. But convince Google as they translate it as "snacks." I am sure they will welcome your input.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-11-2020, 12:46 AM
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Good color, quelle sorte de casse-croûte pour vous? Jambon? ;o)
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Forum: Pentax Q
07-09-2020, 04:44 PM
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This small and relatively old community also has the distinction of having started out pretty isolated. But even though it was isolated it was a group of like-minded people. To wit: just one church. I guess you either attended that one or went to join the damned. It is open to the public on most days. Fortunately vandals are too lazy to drive out this far to desecrate church property. The town has somewhat the air of being its own reality. I'll make a trip back if we ever get some days with sunshine.
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Forum: Pentax Q
07-04-2020, 03:34 PM
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One of the picture book homes in Oysterville. It looks like the owner has taken a break from their gardening chores but left their pail behind. And a nice yellow house with a stoop just right for summer sitting.
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Forum: Pentax Q
07-03-2020, 02:15 PM
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One of the beautiful period style home in Oysterville framed by some of those famous cedars. A very placid place.
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Forum: Pentax Q
06-30-2020, 05:35 PM
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Let me play devil's advocate here and ask why would someone spend more on the Metabones than on the camera? What's the gain? What's the purpose? Why not spend a like amount on another camera with better lenses and sensor?
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Forum: Pentax Q
06-29-2020, 04:37 PM
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Oysterville is more than parking lots and oyster middens. Here's a shot of some old cedars.
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Forum: Pentax Q
06-25-2020, 11:41 PM
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A trip to Oysterville, WA. (Oysterville, Washington - Wikipedia) Yes, if you guessed they are famous for oysters you guessed right. This pic is of a very small oyster midden in the parking lot of an oyster farm. The oysters themselves are named after the bay, Willapa Bay oysters, and they are a good eating oyster, especially good pan friend.
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