Mike Johnston wrote:
> How willing are each of you to come along for the ride? I'm not asking if
> you'll "switch over" to digital--I have yet to see it written that if you
> use digital, you can't also use K2s, LXs, and MZ-Ss. But WHERE are you in
> your understanding of the new ways of making pictures, and HOW DO YOU FEEL
> about becoming forward-looking as well as backward-looking, and...will you
> still BE LOYAL to Pentax when most new product introductions are digital???
I think that as long as the optics remain as idiocyncratically wonderful
as they are now and have been in the past, I'll stick around.
I can see myself picking up a 35mm-style body that fits my existing
lenses for digital capture, but not at today's prices. I mean, I've got
my own lab, and I've got some really nice gear for scanning, so the cost
difference is sort of negligible.
Right now, digital capture means limiting myself in terms of my final
product, in the same way that 35mm limits the final product compared to
67, and 67 to 4x5. I've sold my 4x5 because new films are spectacular,
and what I can get out of my 67 surpasses my needs, in terms of grain
and sharpness. When the limitations of a digital 35mm-style body
approach the limitations of 35mm film, I'll probably find my 35mm being
used less and less (though I doubt that I'll sell my LX).
But, brand loyalty...well, unless Pentax do something goofy like change
their mount and ditch backwards compatibility, they've got me sewn up.
I love these lenses.
-Aaron
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