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by Chris Malcolm
Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:58 am
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Only 2 smileys per post?
Replies: 14
Views: 4140

Re: Only 2 smileys per post?

Sonolta wrote:Who are you and what do you want? Are you posting here just to practice your typing skills? :roll:

-Sonolta
The answer to your question is in my previous post.
by Chris Malcolm
Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:05 am
Forum: Imaging Helpline
Topic: A landscape (A100 + Mamiya 300mm)
Replies: 13
Views: 7443

Re: A landscape (A100 + Mamiya 300mm)

Actually, this reminds me again that the Alpha 100 is sharper than any of the later models - 700, 200, 300, 350 none have exactly the same fine detail recording ability at 100%, though the 700 and 350 both capture more detail in the end by having larger file size. David If all those models were to ...
by Chris Malcolm
Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:02 am
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Only 2 smileys per post?
Replies: 14
Views: 4140

Re: Only 2 smileys per post?

Sonolta wrote: "But since people like talking about other people behind their backs on here..." Although I've been using email and newsgroups since they were invented, I've only recently started using web forums like this one. I was under the impression that they were rather limited in the...
by Chris Malcolm
Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:38 pm
Forum: Imaging Helpline
Topic: Architectural shots
Replies: 13
Views: 4280

Re: Architectural shots

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3086/2641978800_0620a5c6e1.jpg The famous "think cell" office windows for members of the new Scottish Parliament in the controversially expensive and modernistic new Scottish Parliament Building. http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1207/1467709169_e15f49bc74.jpg ...
by Chris Malcolm
Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:19 am
Forum: Alpha A-mount System
Topic: So
Replies: 41
Views: 11710

Re: So

PTLens handles lens geometry correction on the SAL 18-250mm and the Sigma 10-20mm on the A350 very well. I use it as a stand-alone program on high-res JPEGs, and am most impressed with it. It does take half a minute on my old slow computer to chew through a large image once the corrections have been...
by Chris Malcolm
Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:26 am
Forum: DSLRs pre-2006
Topic: lens gear stripped
Replies: 18
Views: 9163

Re: lens gear stripped

Why was this problem not made more public? What problem? Do you have a link to somewhere where the problem is described in detail? It certainly isn't easy to google up any details based on the few clues you've provided. However, since this is a handy thread title in an appropriate forum let's try to...
by Chris Malcolm
Sat Jul 26, 2008 11:10 am
Forum: Welcome and well met!
Topic: Hi from Edinburgh, a Sony R1 user upgrading
Replies: 2
Views: 2126

Re: Hi from Edinburgh, a Sony R1 user upgrading

If by "simple" you mean either adjustable barrel or pincushion, then the Sigma 10-20mm geometric distortion isn't simple in that sense. At 10mm, it's almost moustache, being pretty flat until close to the edges where it suddenly drops into a much more barrellish curve. So it's a combinatio...
by Chris Malcolm
Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:40 am
Forum: Welcome and well met!
Topic: Hi from Edinburgh, a Sony R1 user upgrading
Replies: 2
Views: 2126

Hi from Edinburgh, a Sony R1 user upgrading

Decades ago I was a Minolta XG2 SLR user who now and then traded photographs for the money to buy more kit, but for the last ten years the old XG2 had collected much more dust than photographs. I'd been vaguely waiting for the digital camera market to settle down before investing much in it. By &quo...