Rob Studdert wrote:
OK we've now got quite a few DSLR owners on board with a bit of use behind them, how about a quick informal usage survey?
For those DSLR users with 35mm gear who thought before buying their DSLR that their 35mm film usage would:
Remain the same? Be halved? Become occasional? Become specific (i.e. B&W only or high ISO or slide only)? Cease all together?
I think I expected it to be halved. I really like my good old ZX-5n; it just feels like a broken in pair of jeans. And I've gotten a lot of consistantly good results from it. But I haven't used it in the five weeks I've owned an *ist-DS. I still expect to use it from time to time, and for that reason have chosen to not sell it, nor the lenses that make more sense mounted on it than on the *ist-DS, but it is definately getting less use than I anticipated, so far. Ask again in a year after the excitement over the DSLR has waned a bit.
Did your subsequent actual film use match your prior expectations?
I think I've already answered that.
For users who had Pentax SLRs prior to purchasing a Pentax DSLR did you end up buying one or more new lenses specifically to suite the DSLR?
I bought the DSLR as a kit with the 18-55 lens. My original plan was to buy the body only, but I found a dealer who advertised the kit at pricing that was as low as most others advertised for body-only (by the time I got home from the store, they had changed their web-site's advertisement, so it may have been a mistake).
Now that I've had the camera for a month or so, I do plan to do a little fine tuning on my lens assortment. I don't feel any urgency; I like the lenses I've got. But as I see the lenses I want, at the right pricing, I'll gradually make the changes.
One that I think I'll probably get rid of is my 17-28mm fisheye; I rarely used it on 35mm, and it seems strange putting a 17mm fisheye on a body that magnifies it by 1.5x. ;) Not-so-wide fisheye? Wierd. I will probably also get rid of my 80-320. I can't hand-hold it effectively past 200mm, when mounted on the *ist-DS. In its place I'll probably get myself a 135mm f/2, which on the *ist-DS will have an equivilancy of 202mm. I would also like to sell off my "kit" lens in favor of the 16-45mm f/4. Big price difference, but maybe the fisheye can help to offset it somewhat.
Dave
