For travelling (long trips) I'm not shure I'd want to bring a digital. A few years back I went to South Africa and didn't even bring my PZ-1. I brought my Super A. Mostly because it's light and small - and because of the crime rate in S.A. Tree weeks in South Africa and I didn't chaage batteries even once.
If I should travel with the *ist D, I'd make sure to have: Sufficient Insurance Vosonic P300 card-reader/hard-drive Extra batteries for harddrive and camera as well as battery chargers. That's the big problem with digital - it's very battery consuming. And it doesn't handle moisture/wet weather very well. When I lived in Irealnd, I did a lot of hillwalking, which meant I'd be walking from 8 AM to 8 PM - in the wind, sunshine and rain. I'd hate to see my digital camera spoiled by moisture. If you are travelling by car it's a different story, of course. Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Peter Smekal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 23. januar 2005 15:12 Til: [email protected] Emne: 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
