Seeing Perry de-lurk (un-lurk?) has prompted me to take the same (big) step, although I have only been lurking for about 18 days.
I'm a lapsed Pentax user, happily returned to the fold. The first real camera I owned was (actually, is, as I still have it) a Pentax Super-A, bought in 1984 (along with a few lenses, flash and other bits and pieces). I loved using that camera but...a familiar story...got doing other things... As some others have found, the convenience [For me! No debate will be entered into!] of working digitally revitalised my interest in photography (as a hobby, although I teach biology and do use my pictures for that). When I finally decided to get a digital SLR I found, to my great delight, that I could get a Pentax AND use my old lenses. So I am now the pleased owner of an *ist DL (the DS2 not being available here -- Darwin, Australia -- or so I was told, perhaps wrongly; and, anyway, I like the DL just fine). I find the volume of messages on the list a bit daunting but there's some great stuff here. And I like the idea of PESO, PAW and PAD. Best wishes to all, where-ever you are and what-ever you are celebrating! Keith PS As a biologist, it's probably not too surprising that I mostly take (or try to take) nature shots... http://www.users.bigpond.com/keith.mcguinness/ph/peso/index.html
