John Mustarde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The ist-D will soon be on the store shelves. Hordes of PDML'ers are >counting their pennies and watching their credit card limits in >anticipation. When the wave of ist-D purchases hits PDML, we will >see: > >1. Trash cans will overflow with keyboards sporting worn out Delete >keys. Film posters deleting digital posts; digital posters deleting >film posts. Everyone deleting BR's posts
Except those with a working killfile who don't need to! >2. Sales of printers will go down. P-digi folks will realize they >can't afford the ink to print all those fine pics they get without >having to slave over a hot scanner. Why would someone with a digicam use a scanner? :-P >2.5 So they will be satisfied just looking at them on their monitor. >The wife, digging around on hubby's computer looking for Junior's >birthday photos, will discover most of Daddy's last hard drive upgrade >has been filled up with girlie mpgs. Uh oh, daddy's in the doghouse. Ooh, thanks for the warning! (Windows 2000 can password protect specific directories, right? Better look into that!) >3. The favorite PDML debate will no longer be Fuji vs. Kodak or MF vs >35mm. It will be Maha vs Sanyo batteries, or which CF card and what >size, vs. MicroDrive. Glossy paper vs. mat vs. fine art? >4. The world will wonder how P-dists can extol the virtues of their >small DSLR, whilst adding a large grip/battery pack to it. Urm...by removing the battery pack on occasions when size and weight are critical? That's what I do with the MZ-S. >5. Those in the know will realize the ist-D is purely a Nikon D-100 >with a K-mount, but without ultrasonic motor lenses or vibration >reduction technology. Hopefully, the ist-D autofocus speed will blow >away the D100, thus leveling the playing field until USM/IS lenses >show up. I *hope* that's the reason they cleared out that space where the aperture simulator ring in the camera body used to be. >6. The number of PDMLers counting pixels in the film vs digital >resolution debate will slowly be reduced to one. And there was much rejoicing! >7. Over time, we will see subjects like "I saw this cute little >camera called an MX - I didn't know Pentax made manual focus cameras.. >Does anyone know about it" and the sad reply will be "The last guy who >had one of those left the list last year," Never! -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
