Re: More Enablement was[Re: Enablement A Go-Go!!]

[Peter J. Alling]

frank theriault wrote:
Well, mines not really for sale (as you know).
 

I knew that, though I suppose for the right price...
BUT, wow, congrats on your new baby!  Why'd you go D and not Ds?  For
the price difference, and my needs, I'd go Ds every time (but then,
I'm a pretty odd fellow).
 

I guess I'm a snob, I couldn't let myself to have a camera with "picture 
modes" any more than I can
admit that a car can decide to shift gears more efficiently than I can.  
I was able to get a low mileage
used *ist-D for less than a new Ds... 
Besides if I'm losing efficient use of the aperture ring during metering 
I might as well get something
back. So many people have raved about Hyper Manual that I decided that 
would be my consolation...

And, a - what did you call it - Vemar 12mm fisheye?  Never heard of
that brand before.  Do they specialize in fisheyes or something
('cause I don't know about those beasts, except that I now own a cheap
Russian one...)?
 

If you think your's is cheap, you don't know cheap.  I suspect this 
beast is the same one that Spiratone
and Acura sold in the 60's.  It was probably made by Sigma in a previous 
lifetime, before they aspired to
the highest quality.  It's a T mount and has get this Waterhouse Stops 
at f8 f11 and f16. No focus ring depending
entirely on DOF for focusing.  In the viewfinder it appears that 
everything from the surface of the lens to infinity is
in focus at f16.   I paid very little for it but I just saw the 
Spiratone version sell for even less on e-bay, (I'd be bummed
but I did say it was cheap, so it just wasn't as cheap as it could have 
been).

The neat thing is that the image circle which is semi *Vignetting* on 
35mm makes it about the same on the *ist-D as the
SMC-P 17mm f4 on 35mm. 

Sounds like you've got something to keep you busy over the next couple
of weekends.  Another film guy goes to the dark side.  There are fewer
and fewer of us diehards left...
<g>
cheers,
frank
 


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