Even with the best new AF gear available to me, there's something unaccountably appealling about an all-metal body, the snick of the mechanical shutter, the heft of the manual lens, and a roll of Tri-X. That's why I kept my Pentax MF gear when I jumped ship to Canon for IS for much of my shooting. And I go back and forth easily between the two systems. Why? Maybe because that's how I remember shooting when I was a teenager.
Perhaps if I were 15 today instead of 51 I'd be building up a future allegiance to film-based Canon EOS, so that in 30 years -- when digital will have eliminated film from all but a handful of museums -- I'd look back fondly, and a little stodgily, on the smooth whir of the Canon film drive, the hum of the IS, and the quick focus of the lens. And then there's manual typewriters.... BK -- Bob Keefer Keefer Photography www.bkpix.com
