Hiya Sask Bill, Thank you sir !! This ist D is for the wife, so the smaller the better. I will do the battery switch for sure that you spoke of. It really sounds like a sweet camera. I am still painting houses :) Everything good with you?
Steve > Welcome back Steve. > Of all the ist series cameras, I like the istD the best, although it is > the poorest performing > one of the lot. It is very slow to write pictures to the card, which can > be a trmendous > annoyance. OTOH, it's picture quality is excellent, and I don't think > Pentax has matched the > build quality in anything they've put out since. It is also a very small > camera, which is > something I have grown to appreciate now that I am using a K20. > The istD will mount any Pentax K mount lens of any age, and other than the > standard caveats > regarding Ricoh Ka-R mount lenses, any K mount lens will work on that > camera, as will M42 lenses > (with adaptor). > > I've made prints up to 16 x 50 inches from istD files (cropped to > panoramic, not stitched > exposures) with good results, and very good 12 x 18 prints straight out of > the camera (in camera > JPEGS, rather than RAW). There is a battery grip for the istD which makes > it nicer to shoot > with, especially verticals. The istD is battery sensitive. We used to have > all sorts of > complaints about the cameras doing weird things, to the point that the > standard reply was to try > AA Lithiums before sending the camera off for service. I gave up on NI-MH > rechargables with the > camera and started using CR-V3 batteries instead. No problems with the > camera after that. > I would certainly buy an istD over a Canon, just so that I could use > Pentax lenses. If you can > free up the funds, consider a new K200, or possibly a K10 if you can find > one. > > Are you still boarding houses? > > William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
