Welcome aboard Brother Brendan, Yes that 67ii is lovely isn't it. It has almost stopped me from shooting 35mm anymore. The best way I can describe it is like a big LX (minus the low light meter, but plus spot and matrix metering). Wonderful mechanical feel and gorgeous images. You have a fairly similar set of lenses as I do (55, 90 LS, 165/2.8, 165 LS, 300). One of these days I would like to get the fisheye, 45 and new 75/2.8.
Anyway, glad you could join. Brother Bruce Monday, March 3, 2003, 5:59:44 PM, you wrote: BM> Hey gang, BM> Well, it's only been forever since I've taken a look BM> at the PDML. I've been busy with a new job and other BM> things so I haven't really had the time to read and BM> post as I once did. BM> A lot has changed in a few months, no? Pentax finally BM> shows us what its DSLR is going to look like (I won't BM> comment on it till I've handled one) and I've joined BM> the Brotherhood...twice now actually. My house is now BM> refied, I have a new truck, and the 67II showed up BM> today. BM> I had the opportunity to try the 67 body before using BM> the 67II and although I thought it performed well I'm BM> sure I'll be much happier with the new body. I can say BM> I must have chosen an adequate tripod in the Bogen BM> 3021BPro Legs and the 3047 head. I was shooting in low BM> light the other night with the 67 loaded with Kodak BM> 160T (rated at ISO 200)and didn't get a single blurred BM> frame with exposures as long as 1/2 second (MU, of BM> course). After everything I'd read here over the last BM> couple of years I worried I'd see some camera shake BM> but there was none. Does anyone believe the 67II is a BM> little better in this area? BM> Current lenses for the 67II are the 55mm f4, the 165mm BM> LS f4, the 75mm f4.5 Shift, and the 90mm f2.8. I was BM> tempted to pick up one of the zooms but chickened out BM> at the last minute. BM> -Brendan MacRae BM> __________________________________________________ BM> Do you Yahoo!? BM> Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more BM> http://taxes.yahoo.com/
