I've been on the list for a several days now. I joined mainly to see what people far more experienced than I thought of the *ist D. I was truly surprised to see that film is being replaced by digital at such a rapid rate. I'm still buying, repairing, selling AND shooting ME Supers, Super A's and various MZ/ZX Series, the 5n being my current favorite AF. I even just aquired a *ist (film) body and the features are, to me, quite amazing. I do own an Olympus C-5050 5MP Digital. It's an super camera but I have been using it almost exclusively for product photos. My experience level is stricty amateur, I have shot a number of weddings and such and my "clients" (mostly friends) have been pleased, but this is not something I enjoy a great deal. Sad fact is I think I have more talent in the area of fixing than in shooting but would like to learn to do much better in the shooting department. O.K., enough babbling........on to the questions: I decided to take the 5050 for a spin tonite and see happened. I used the cat, the dog, and the neighborhood kids as subjects. Got some fair shots, printed them out and was very pleased with the results. HOWEVER, I missed some of the very best ones while waiting for the &^*^*$%^& camera to write to the XD card! Heck I can "Thumb Wind" WAY faster than that! I'd never even considered that the camera could be the deciding factor in missing potentially good shots, with film it's usually me! I also observed that the 5050 does a very poor job of dealing with high contrast situations. Is this a characteristic of digital? In the opinion of those of you using mostly the *ist D now can it keep up with film in situations where the subject is as active as an animal, or even worse, a kid? The 5050 of course is severely handicapped by its limited focal length range, it does lovely macro work however. But though the D would allow me to use my collection of Pentax K lenses (20 or so), can it compete with film in the frames per second department when required? Sorry for the lengthy post but this is sort of an intro too.
To extract the two questions: 1.) Can digital be expected to be ready to shoot when I need it to? 2.) Is high contrast lighting a much bigger problem with digital? Don
