About a week ago I opened this folder up, today I just deleted 43,341 messages dating back to 8/8/03.
I think I'm going to go ahead and begin partcipating, again. I realized in the 20 minutes of holding down the D key (yes, ys, I could've deleted the whole mail folder and saved a significant portion of my time, but that would've been like _cheating_ myself of the experience, would you believe for a minute I planned on actually looking at the titles of everything?!)... Where was I? Oh, yes, back. I think. I'd like to be. I'd like to focus on photography (har, har) again. I remember when I stopped taking photographs (uh, about the 8th of August, 2003...) because I had just moved to a Mac from a fifteen years of PC life (that OSX operates just like NeXTSTeP was too inticing), which in turn rendered my scanners useless (no drivers), which was hampered by the fact that my girlfriend was moving in which took up every available weekend to be used in cleaning up and fixing up the house. Yep. One thing to another, and in the end I haven't picked up a Pentax camera since.. Oh, sometime around August 8, 2003. :) Although, I hadn't left photography behind completely, I've ditched 4x5 in favour of 8x10 (work bonus+ebay=enablement in the shape of a B&J Commercial View) which, in turn, is going to make me start using my little Pentax cameras again.. First, there's nothing like picking up 40# bag filled with field camera, lenses, and film holders then having to find a place to lug another 8# of tripod to put that whole 645 kit into perspective. And an MX might as well be a subminature camera. Heh. Not to mention the talking to you get when you mention trying to bring it all on an airplane for vacation. :) So, hoping that with some coming free time I'll have some nice weather and maybe I'll actually get back around to taking photos again... So, looking forward to re-aqquainting with those who are still here, and meeting the new folks. Have there been any serious changes that I should be aware of in the last year? Where's the Pentax state-of-the-art these days? What's the future of the 645 and 67 platforms, were there ever digital products announced for them? How about the film bodies? Is there an *Ist successor yet? Do they still manufacture the MZ-S? Has the *Ist D lived up to what people hoped it would? When I left, it was just starting to make it to people for use. Is the Altoids-sized Optio still the darling of the Pentax crowd? And what's all this PAW stuff? gfen, settling back in. -- http://www.infotainment.org <-> more fun than a poke in your eye.
