Re: pentax-discuss-d Digest V05 #319

[Eric J. Viglione]

To answer the first question, I bought a DS, and I tried JPG at first, 
and decided to try RAW and I will stay with RAW for the serious stuff. 
Much more post processing image data to work with. Since I lost my wet 
darkroom, my digital darkroom has taken it's place. I'm still using old 
Photoshop 6.1, so I am stuck using the Pentax lab for converting RAW 
until I pony up for CS or Elements. The Pentax Lab is a little clunky, 
but it makes up for it in doing a decent job.

As to knocking the old equipment, sorry if I offended anyone, I was not 
knocking the camera equipment, just the old computer and scanner I used 
to have. I used to lust after a real negative scanner that would do 
medium format negs!

The new DS is just another tool to help me convey my message in the 
shape of an image. Weather listening to an old jukebox or a new top of 
the line surround sound system, the artistic quality of Chopan or 
Mozart, whom ever, was never in question, regardless of the equipment to 
reproduce the artists message. I find the ergonomics of the Pentax 
engineer's to match my own thinking, so I don't have to think about the 
equipment, it's just second nature. The added benefit of great glass 
never hurts though ;-) ....

Some of my favorites as you will see on the old site still include the 
old SMC m42's!

http://www.knology.net/~eviglion/photo.htm
Eric