G'day from West Australia Ivan, No doubt you've by now noticed the large volume of mail (I'm just now catching up on it). Well it never eases up <g>
I've got family in Alberta, spread out between Calgary & Edmonton. I've only seen the prairie country in the dead of winter (that was a bit of a shock let me tell you :-)), Drumheller is as far east as I have been. I was hoping to make a trip to Canada this (northern) summer, but I couldn't get the time off work :-( Enough about me, welcome to the list. Dave P.S. The rest of you guys are slipping. No warnings about who to believe / not believe? <LOL> P.P.S. I have to disagree with Frank, we don't need more Canadians we need more AUSSIES. :-) On 7/28/05, Ivan Shukster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My name is Ivan and I am new to the list but not to Pentax. First started > using them in college in 73 (Spotmatic II) and then next spring bought the > first of two Spotmatic F of which I still have one along with the > autobellows slide duplicator. Several lenses and years later wanted to go > more modern and had a used Super Program I think it was called. Did not like > it much. Then bought a SF1n and lenses and a couple of years later traded in > most of our Spotmatic stuff and the Super Program for a SFXn which except > for the X is the same as a 1. Since then have added a MZ5n. Lens range from > the fisheye zoom to a Sigma 400. > > Also have bought second had a Pentax 110 system Acutally got two camera > bodies and three lenses, flash and winder. > > Non Pentaxs that I occassionally use are a Rolleichord IV, a Crown Graphic > and a Seneca Improved 5X7 The later two I am planning on selling to buy a > wood 4X5 And a Sony 4.1 megapixel point and shoot. If the image is moving > we have a Sony Digital 8 and a Canon XL1 (second hand from a friend who was > a freelance videographer) > > Peference is for landscape and nature photography. I had mentioned in my > first posting that a tripod makes one a better photographer. I should have > also mentioned that being married to an artist is a very big help as well. > Someday when my ship comes in I will once again have a darkroom in the house > and a studio with large format Epson printers for the digital work. I love > both and see them as perhaps two tools in the toolbox as opposed to an > either or situation. After I get my new to me 4X5 and a couple of more > lenses it will be time to save towards a digital SLR and hopefully Pentax > will have a higher megapixel one out by then. > > Guess I maybe misled about the Sony digital camea being the first point and > shoot. As a kid I had an Instamatic 104 and since then have taken pictures > with some Kodak cameras I still have such as a Baby Brownie Special and a > Dualflex TLR > > Other interests are the enviroment, cycling, the praires, Saabs, Brittany > Spaniels and ferns > > Ivan Shukster > Medicine Hat > >
