I can absolutely recommend the *istD as a traveller's camera. You don't have to change the batteries too often, and if you have to, you can buy batteries in every shop. You have an even better availability of batteries than with other confentional cameras. The mz5 i use, too, for example needs more special batteries. I would recommend to buy a kind of hard-disk utility to safe the pictures. For example i've made good experiences with the arcos gmini. It has a compact flash card reader and a 20 GB Hard-Disk built in. You can use it also as a mp3-player (inkl. WMA) and it has a full colour display wich helps you to control the copying precedure.
(the only minus: the image processor is a little bit slow, so watching the saved pictures isn't real fun). -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Peter Smekal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Sonntag, 23. Januar 2005 15:12 An: [email protected] Betreff: Digital anguish Hi all, it funny how one can get affected by everyone going digital, and by all talk about film being dead, or at least dying. So lately I've been thinking about trying to get an *ist D as long as some still are on the market. It seems to be not so unlike the PZ-1p/Z-1p with its Hyperprogram which I like and use a lot. One never knows what the next Pentax DSLR will look like, but probably (?) less like the PZ-1p/Z-1p than the *ist D. But then again I wonder if the *ist D is that practical when you are travelling (which is when I'm doing most of my photographing). My LX, ME Super and PZ-1p/Z-1p have been rather trustworthy travel companions. And then I see all the slides, colour and b+w films I've shot during the years in different parts of the world, and start to wonder if it wouldn't be better to go digital by scanning and work on the best of all those pics to begin with. Well, maybe its just sad to put some great gear into retirement (I'm pretty sure once I've managed to get a *ist D I will be toying around with it most of the time). Any advice? BTW What would you recommend as a good Mac-compatible scanner? Peter, Sweden
