Hello Paul, Glad to hear you got a working one. They are fun, aren't they! Working with the strobes is real nice - more like having a poloroid back so you can actually see the results of the lighting setup. Modeling lights help, but only so far.
-- Best regards, Bruce Friday, January 30, 2004, 6:38:39 PM, you wrote: PS> I returned my first *ist D -- the one that couldn't read memory cards PS> -- to B&H and ordered another. It arrived today. I upgraded the PS> firmware and shot a few pics. I tried it out with my studio strobes, PS> and I'm very pleased. I was in the process of doing some table top with PS> MF, so I just repeated one of the shots with the *ist D, a K 50/1.4 and PS> the three strobes that I had been using with the 6x7. I resed up the PS> result in PhotoShop to yield an 18x 11.5 print at 360 dpi and poured it PS> into my Epson 1200. The result isn't as crisp as the prints from PS> scanned 6x7 but the detail is very good. Of course there are better PS> ways to res up the file. I think Genuine Fractals and other software PS> are better at this than PhotoShop. I'm looking forward to working with PS> this camera.
