Simon, you're dead right, Ryan rang me and was so fired up he had to come and show me it! Wish he hadn't, I've now bought two! Seriously, although I had seen Tanja's *ist-D before, I hadn't really played with it, but I had a couple of hours with Ryan's yesterday, in which I got to use several of my older lenses on it, including my Tokina-R 400/5.6, and was impressed enough to decide it was time to bite. The gold looks pretty good, IMHO, and the camera itself I found very easy to use and nice to hold, so in a couple of days I'll be 'enabled', at least camera-wise, even if I'm disabled financially!
John Coyle (now a lot poorer) Brisbane, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 5:10 PM Subject: RE: ENABLED limited ist D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > Hi Ryan, > Glad to hear you're so happy - you really do sound like a kid on > Christmas morning. > :-) > Cheers, > Simon > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 31 August 2004 6:34 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ENABLED limited ist D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > Sheesh! even the ist D on the strap is gold.. and there's another tag > saying > Pentax CR Kennedy 50 years 1954-2004 > > Yum!! > Ryan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ryan Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PDML" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 8:26 AM > Subject: ENABLED limited ist D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > > Not my usual civil opening, but F*ck me! Just as I was typing out my > emails, > > being kinda jealous of Jens, the doorbell rings. I run downstairs and > sign > > for a box (someone's sending me Chardonnay??) . I glance at the sender > > details- CR Kennedy! It's Christmas today! > > > > Run up, open my box and see my ist D (sans the CS 205 I ordered.. > bah.. > I'll > > give them a call). > > > > But hmm.. why is the Pentax logo gold? I assume it's because the brown > > packaging of the wine box is reflecting.. but no! the shutter release > is > > gold too! and so is the ist D logo! And the arrow button on the back > too > and > > just below the gold PENTAX on the back, it says 50 years in Australia. > > > > Honestly I'm not too fond of the goldilocksliness of it all (It > doesn't > even > > say LTD anywhere), but I think I've got something sweet here haven't > I? > > First to report it? > > > > I'll try to send pictures of it soon. > > > > Cheers, > > Ryan > > > > > > > > >
