On Mar 1, 2006, at 9:45 PM, Rob Studdert wrote:
Retro design concepts may provide new sales opportunities after the
pixel and
function wars are over :-)
Isn't that what they're doing now with these oddball pancake lenses and
such? Trying to sell on design concept rather than numbers?
I'll be honest -- I came back to the PDML partially because I had
bought this DS2 and was really far out of the loop on what was going on
with Pentax stuff in general. I knew of the DSLR bodies because I had
managed to borrow a number of iterations of them for odd jobs, but
nothing of the lenses. If baseball hadn't evolved into a steady gig, I
don't think I would have even bought a DSLR this year.
Anyways, it was the first I had read about the new pancake, and I was
really tickled by it. I'll probably buy that 21mm when it comes out.
But still -- I'm working on 600mb files of scenic Italy right now,
generated by a Pentax 67 and Velvia 100F. Whenever I hear any chatter
about digital stuff and bigger files and more resolution, I just think
of what I can already produce here and shrug. Shooting digital is
cheaper in terms of material consumption and quicker in terms of
turnaround, and sometimes I need that. I certainly need it for
baseball.
But getting even close to 67 is still so very far away at a level that
allows shooting from the hip in the way that you can with a 67.
It'll be a big test for me this weekend, as I'm going to go on a little
roadtrip and NOT bring my 67, just the DS2. We'll see if I regret it.
I do need to be more comfortable with it before April.
-Aaron
