----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dayton" Subject: *ist D aftermath
> So, big question to all *istD owners: > After having purchased and used your new DSLR, are there any of you > who now have second thoughts? Perhaps wishing you had gone the Canon > or Nikon route instead? Given the opportunity to do it again, would > you still purchase the *istD? No regrets, and yes. The camera suits my simple needs, and uses lenses that I already own. > > Even further, would you recommend it above other choices to someone > else who doesn't have any investment in Pentax Glass? I would and I have, but lots of people are swayed by price, the ist D is not a good deal pricewise. > > Obviously for me, I have a stray zoom or two (28-80 Tamron, 80-320 > Pentax) and an AF280T, 2 AF400T's and a bunch of 67 glass. Other than > that, I am free to choose any direction. So, is the *istD the right > choice? Ferget the 6x7 glass. If you buy a DSLR, you are going to be buying glass for it. The change in the angle of view changes things. Lenses that were good for a task may not be good for that task anymore. Contrawise, I have had a couple of pleasant surprises. The A 50mm f/1.2 is a very nice lens on the ist D, but I hadn't liked it much on film. The 77, which is really not well suited to portraiture, even though the focal length mimics a portrait length, is a really nice telephoto, though I think it loses some of it's 3D effect. Are you going to be bothered by the unhappiness about the JPEG algorithm and software? Or will you be like me and not really care? How about getting the card out? It's really bitchy about it. How about the frame rate and buffer capacity? It's apparently pretty limited. OTOH, it is a really pleasant little camera to use. So there you go. William Robb
