That's very good. I agree with most of what you said. But I get more and more paying customers - they expect me to deliver!
I know Rick wants photographs for the family album, from travelling with his wife an son. The *ist D will suit him fine and will save him all the hazle (and expence) of using film. Someone also asked about how the D would perform for shooting scaters and similar stuff. My reply would have to be, that the D is not the best choise for this. It just isn't. The D works fine for me - as long as I stick to postcards, studio portraits, commercial adds and landscapes. If I was asked to document a ballgame - I'd simply have to say: Thank you very much, but no thanks! Please ask someone with a fast camera. With fast AF and 8 FPS and "unlimited" buffer. You can make a blaming "movie" with a Canon DSLR, for crying out loud. I have to wait 37 secs for the next 5 shot boost featuring 2.5 FPS - of which probably very few will be in focus, because the AF can't cope! The D is a very nice camera. It is!. But it was never the first choise of PJ's. Don't you wonder why? Regards Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Malcolm Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 21. februar 2006 22:15 Til: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Emne: RE: Question: Should I buy an ist D? Jens Bladt wrote: > But if I was starting from scratch, I'm quite certain I'd go > elsewhere. > A lot of photographers do, you know. PDML = Pentax Defection Mailing List. A lot of people shifted both before AND after the launch of the *ist D. I didn't regret buying mine then or now - it does what I wanted it too and still does - and all the negative things I thought about it (reliability, battery munching) all have been proved to be without foundation. If I was starting from scratch again, I'd buy a Pentax. Malcolm -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.12/266 - Release Date: 02/21/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.12/266 - Release Date: 02/21/2006
