On Jan 22, 2004, at 10:13 PM, Bill Owens wrote:
Paul,
When it arrives, make sure it has the firmware upgrade. Since the upgrade
has only been available for a week or so, it's probably going to have
Version 1.0 installed.
Bill
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 9:56 PM Subject: Re: I did it.
Thanks Bill. I'm looking forward to getting out to Kensington with my
400/5.6, which will now have the field of view of a 600. Should be fun.
Paul
On Jan 22, 2004, at 9:47 PM, Bill Sawyer wrote:
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)
