GRIN!
Isn't it strange? We all tend to think everyone will, or at least should, do as we do.
I say wait a another year. I think you will find that some have grabbed on to digital and never looked back, and some have become disallusioned and gone back to film. Some others will be using both, for what the relative strengths are. OTOH, I am thinking that digital will have replaced film for general photography in about 5 more years. There will still be folks shooting film, but they will be specialists of some sort.
In the mean time I am having fun with my anti-digital camera.
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Jens Bladt wrote:
Jeff If you have one lens and the LX - keep it it you want to use it (film) occationally. Don't buy MF unless you shoot HUGE prints of landscapes and Portraits. Buy a digtal. I haven't used my 6x6 outfit (camera and 5 lenses, 3 viewfinders etc.) since I got my 5 MP SONY. It's very convenient, and in some ways better than 35mm. Very clear photographs with no grain and no hazzle and better DOF. This (not mine) was done at open aperture 2.0 and 1/40 sec (!) with a Canon G5 (5MP): http://www.fotokritik.dk/visstort.html?pic=81895 What more do you want, really?
The Canon 10D is remakabley good (judging from photgraphs posted on many websites). So is the *ist D, really! I have app. 20 lenses for 35mm Pentax, Bellows A, winders, refconverter, tele concerters etc. as well as 6 bodies. If I didn't, I wouldn't hesitate to buy a Canon 10D or a similar (Pentax) camera. But I love my Pentax gear - and all I really need is a digital Petnax body. You are "free" to do what ever you want.
If we wait for det Baby D, the film gears may have lost even more market value...perhaps... All the best Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt
-----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Jeff Post [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 29. juni 2004 20:07 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Selling Pentax 35mm gear (WAS RE: Beautiful SF1n kit, Voigtlander Perkeo 120 folder)
Jens, I am wrestling with that same question, although it sounds as if you have far more gear then me. My largest investment is in a single lens. Since the *istD works with A* lenses, I do not expect them to depreciate considerably. The value of my LX I expect to drop like a rock, if it hasn't already. The questions become, do I buy an *istD, do I sell all my 35mm gear and buy a cannon 10D, do I sell my 35mm gear and buy a 645 or 67? If I thought the *istD was going to evolve into yearly updates with either bigger sensor size or greater megapixel sensors I would not consider anything else. With all the talk of a babyD I would be surprised to see anything above the *istD (even if it was only the Sony 8 megapixel sensor slapped in) for a couple of years. Jeff At 09:53 AM 6/29/2004, you wrote:
From: Jens Bladt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 1:32 PM
It seems that some of you are still buying film gear. Are you camera collectors or do you actually still use film (like me)? I have been very close to selling all my 35mm film gear (Pentax bodies). I wonder if I should keep it or sell. Is ait already to late to sell at reasonable prices?
Jens Bladt
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