On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:56:29 +0100, P�l Jensen wrote: > >I didn't plea for a Pentax DSLR. I believe they should release one when they had a >sufficiently original product. They didn't. Who is going to buy the *ist D?
Well, me for instance :-) Having used Pentax SLR's for 25 years now, and accumulating over 20 nice lenses for them I think this first DSLR by Pentax will do quite nicely for a few years! The 15mm will be an 'acceptable' wide angle, but more important, the FA 200mm f/28 and the A* 300mm f/2.8 + 1.7 AF converter will be extremely usefull! It will replace my MZ-3 / PZ-1 / LX trio for some nature and wildlife shooting (thanks to the 1.5 factor) and replace the now 3 year old 3 megapixel Canon Powershot for a lot of other things. The 6 megapixel is surely enough for 95% of my shooting, and for the rest I still have my film-camera's including the 67II. So I am quite happy with the *ist D !! Of course a full-frame 15 megapixel KAF3 (or KAF4 :-) Pentax DSLR will be a nice addition to it in about two years :-) I think the judgement has dropped a bit too much to the negative side over the last day, of course this *ist D is not the ultimate digital, but there was no reason to expect that either. I think Pentax did a good job for theit final entry to this market ... Regards, JvW ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery
