On 23 Feb 2005 at 7:59, Eric J. Viglione wrote: > Hello old friends! > > Been on quite a lay off from the PDML and PUG. What's it been, 4 or 5 > years? Well, I didn't change brands, just priority for a while. Had some > major personal crisis to deal with that didn't leave much time for fun. > Moved since then, and lost a little interest in film since I don't have > room for a darkroom anymore. No one does decent B&W processing around > here, and my quality & control (and half the fun) of the results was the > results of doing my own work... So - gasp!-- I went digital. Started > with an Olympus E-10 a few years back, while trying to sort out decent > local processing, finally gave up. > > Don't get me wrong, I hung on to my favorite (Pentax) manual bodies and > lenses, let go of some of the expensive Contax and Pentax medium format > stuff that was declining in resale value like a rock. Now I've started > to enjoy using all my old K and M42 lenses, flash etc again on my new > Pentax *IST digital. Been lurking over on Phil's DPReview Pentax SLR > forum a little and really enjoying getting the creative juices flowing > again. I checked out the PUG and was mildly surprised to see my images > still on line in the archives. The quality of the PUG seems to continue > to rise, Kudo's to all who have hung in there! > > In a digital purge the other day, I found my old EPHOTO web site in an > old backup and reposted it to a knology site. Have a look if you need a > laugh. Man, things have come a ways since having to use crappie old > scanners to get stuff on the Web. I hope to begin posting and > participating again here soon. Thanks for reading! > > http://www.knology.net/~eviglion/photo.htm > > Comments welcomed.
Hi Eric, Welcome back, I too liberated my Pentax MF kit and bought an E-10 a few years back, it was a great introduction to digital imaging, a great camera. I've now had my *ist D for over a year and loving it gripes and all. Did you get a *ist D or DS? Are you shooting jpeg/tiff in camera or RAW? Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
