Great to have you back. All you missed was the death of film. No big deal. Seriously, this is pretty much a digital discussion group now. But that's okay. It's still interesting. Yeah, I'm going to make the leap to the *ist D. Sold most of my screw mount equipment to people in Japan and Taiwan. The LX, MX and bayonet mount lenses will stay, as will the 6x7. But it seems that the future of photography, Pentax, and this forum, is digital. Eventually there will probably be hobbyist internet groups who enjoy film, but I doubt that this will be one of them. No value judgement here, but just count the messages.
In any case, welcome back.
Paul Stenquist
On Jan 20, 2004, at 3:25 PM, Flavio Minelli wrote:
Hi again everybody!
For those who don't know me or don't remember I'm from Rome, Italy and
I've been subscribing the PDML from 1998 to oct 2002 when I gave up as I
couldn't afford the time to wade through all the traffic and chatter.
Now that I have a brand new DSL connection and a new machine at home, I can easily download all the stuff in a moment and allow the message count to go up. I'll still have to do the wading, though, but I finally admitted to myself that I was getting photographically isolated not being able to confront my views with other people and was I shooting less and less with time. I see Fabio Cittadini (Facit) now and then and have met Gianfranco a couple of times over the last year but it's not enough...
So I'm back. I've gone through the archives at times, but it's not the same. Can you bring me up to date? Did I miss something important? I know about the *ist-D and I'm quite interested but I'll be spending a significant amount of money in a new car so it will have to wait. Good news, the one about the firmware upgrade...
Well, that all for now. I even submitted a photo for the Feb PUG.
Ciao, Flavio
