Overall, even if you want to still shoot film the lack of new film bodies isn't a big issue. There's a superb selection of used film bodies on the market today at far more reasonable prices than the new bodies ever sold for (although the really desirable Pentax bodies are rather overpriced in comparison to anything short of a Leica R or Contax, it pains me that a Nikon F100 can be had for half the cost of an MZ-S).
If you're worried about parts, buy a spare or two. -Adam On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Michael S. Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been out of serious camera shopping for so long that only now did I > notice the absence of Pentax film cameras in the product lineup. Should > I care? I was thinking of getting another, but is it worth it? Or if I > ever shoot film again, should I just use the Nikon P&S I inherited from > my father? My primary love with film was black & white, where I started > with my grandfather when he showed me the fun of darkroom work. My > fondest shooting memories from those days was of dipping into Ilford > HP-5 and carrying it all the way to prints, with the necessary frugality > of using the same developer for everything in the chain (D-76, no stop > bath, whatever fixer I had). > > Do I want to go to that expense again for equipment that is already > aging and for which there may never be new parts again? > > -- > -Michael > > -- > 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. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
