> -----Original Message-----From: Alan P. Hayes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I thought I would introduce myself.
Hello Alan, at least one of your fellow SP listees is here. I bought one of those ye olde match needle (LED really) jobs about a month ago (Pentax MX). The DS or it's succesor would be a likely choice if I was going to go all dslr-ish.
-- Peter Williams
Yeah, we SPers do pop up here and there. We should have a secret handshake!
I never had a Pentax back in the olden days. It would have been a Spotmatic. My father was a histologist, which at the time meant taking a lot of pictures through microscopes, which meant that there were a lot of cameras around during my youth. I mostly used Mirandas, though my first SLR was a Praktica. TTL metering sure saved a lot of film!
When I got back into picture taking a few years ago. I realized that I was having to fight these automatic cameras in order to use them in a way I felt comfortable with. You have to spend quite a bit of money to get a digicam that treats you like a grown-up! The other thing about the Pentax that I like is that it's about the size of the manual SLRs. Other brands I'd looked at just felt too darn big to me.
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Alan P. Hayes
Meaning and Form: Writing, Editing and Document Design
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Photographs at http://www.ahayesphoto.com/americandead/index.htm
