It's a brave new world, Paul......... Congratulations.
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Stenquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 22, 2004 9:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I did it. Well, I sold about $1200 worth of screwmount lenses in the last few days along with my Spotmatic Motor Drive, so I ordered an *ist D. My local camera store, which I truly appreciate, wanted $1599. B&H wanted $1345. It was a no brainer. I also ordered the Lexar 1 gig CF card and a card reader for my computer. I figure I'll need more cards at some point, but at least I can get started. A couple of months ago I was sure that I would wait for a 10 megapixel digital before buying, but I eventually came to realize I had a lot of equipment that I not only didn't use -- I didn't even look at it very often. Now I figure my second digital body will be that 10 megapixel camera. The *ist D will do nicely for now. Yeah, I'm going to miss some of my beautiful screw mount lenses. To my mind there is nothing in the photographic universe that is anywhere near as nice as those fluted metal barrels. But they were probably not happy being stored in air tight bags in the back of a dark closet. (Cesar got the best piece of screw mount glass I owned, -- the SMC 85/1.8 . List member Bernd Scheffler got another of the great ones -- the 120/2.8. So some of my good screw mount glass is still in the PDML family. ) I have saved a half dozen very nice M42 lenses, and I can still fondle now and then, so the separation isn't total. But it's time to move on. I'm looking forward to exploring the world of digital with my very modern manual focus K lenses <vbg>. Paul Stenquist (No longer a fondler)
