Peter J. Alling wrote:
Shel, I often carry a LX and a MX as backup, sort of a High/Low strategy. If the something horrible happens to my LX I can still use
all of my film and lenses with the MX. Be a bit difficult to squeeze the CF card into the backup camera if you want to do the same thing
with digital. Still if does make sense if they want to move Optio users up the food chain.
In my instance, I already have and use cameras that use CF, MMC, SD, xD, SmartMedia, MicroDrive!
And since I already have extra cards for them, I guess I'm covered!
The casual user would probably be scratching a bit, I know, but most of us are not casual uses!
By choosing an SD card, Pentax did make the body a bit smaller, and it still can use K-mount lenses on up. Including the 645/67 camera lenses, with adapters, if I read the specs right.
I already carry my 4 Mp Optio S4, which uses the SD/MMC cards, as a backup to or increasingly as a substitute for, a 5 Mp camera that uses the other cards I mentioned. Each carrying case has a pocket or two for cards, which have my spares in them.
I carry "spare" lenses, why not cards?
The "card" argument is almost a specious one, for most PDLMers...
Oh, and by the way, don't forget the larger 2" LCD, when you're all adding up the OTHER small improvements Pentax has made to the new, lower-priced *ist-DS.
Pretty easy to jump in and pooh-pooh a new, 'lesser' version of a familiar model and put it down, but don't forget...we all knew this version was going to be a less expensive one, didn't we.
And all I see are a growing list of improvements they've made to the -D.
Yes, of course there were omissions. I imagine there HAD to be.
A camera that ends up being almost 1/2 price of the original has to cut somewhere!
As most here are fond of pointing out, it's the *lens* that makes the image, and the camera-driver that does the rest. Given a standard suite of characteristics, the body is almost going along for the ride. Think about it...
You cherish your Pentax lenses that you've bought over the years for your 35mm camera bodies?
Now you also have two digital bodies to use them with, don't you. <grin>
keith whaley
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Just took a quick look at the preview, and the camera, at first glance,
looks like a nice step up from the P&S and some "prosumer" models, and is
certainly something that I'd consider as a first foray int DSLR territory. I'm disappointed that there's no CF card, but in truth, I'm not sure why. I know that sounds somewhat silly, but IMO, a card is a card as long as it
stores the info and operates quickly enough. However, I don't know what
the current capacity limitations are on these smaller-sized cards. So,
assuming one doesn't have an investment in CF cards, what's the downside to
using the SD cards? Do the little P&S Pentax digis used the SD cards? If
so, makes perfect sense, up to a point, for Pentax to continue using them
in the istDS.
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