Cotty: I send the very best wishes to you and wish you the very best with your HD Video projects. You'll be great! Glad you're not quitting the list. I know I haven't been with PDML that long, but I feel confident in saying that I've been around long enough to know PDML wouldn't be the same with out you! Big Cheers, Christine
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cotty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "pentax list" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 4:31 PM Subject: All Good Things > Hello list. > > Well, would you believe it, it's almost ten years to the day when I > joined this list. I had an LX and wanted to re-cell a NiCad pack for the > motor drive. Someone pointed me to Rob Studdert's page and the rest, as > they say, is history. > > Since that time there's been plenty of water under the bridge. I sold > the Pentax film gear, bought into Canon with a D60, adapted some K mount > lenses to fit and been called a few names... > > Everything changes, and all good things must come to an end....with > other good things starting up. > >>From next week I'm putting all my Canon gear up for sale. I've decided > to buy into Sony. > > Actually Sony HD ;) Not stills gear - video. I'm taking precious few > stills these days and to be honest, not enjoying it as much as I used > to. I feel a change of priorities coming on... > > And so I will be concentrating more on video production, acquiring some > new gear and need to pay for it. > > I'll have a list of kit up next week and of course will offer to the > PDML first, but fear not - the K15/3.5 and the A*85/1.4 in EF mount will > not be amongst them. I'm going to hang onto those and in a year or two > hope to pick up a used 1Ds mark II full-frame camera. Everything else > with Canon on it will be up for sale. > > I'll keep my rangefinder and three lenses for snaps. I just won't be > photographing with a DSLR for a while. I'll keep the website going. If > it ain't broke, right... > > With a bit of luck and a fair wind I can claw back about two and a half > grand (GBP) and then I'll be half-way there to funding an HD video > camera. Must be something else not nailed down around here I can sell.... > > Meanwhile, I'll be reducing my input into the territory somewhere below > PESO-posting but above lurking. I thought about giving it a rest here, > but to be honest, the gene pool here is well above average and the > photography one sees displayed is first rate, so I wouldn't like to lose > that. Plus I'm still up for any gatherings - UK or elsewhere. Plan on > going to GFM as well (my son insists he come along next year). The > subscription stands. Besides, I need to be there when my hat really does > end up on a plate, not that that will be anytime soon! > > And so in a time-honoured tradition, from the heart of my bottom, it > only remains for me to say: > > There's a penguin on the telly. > > (Yes officer, I'll go quietly....) > > > > > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty > > > ___/\__ > || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche > ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com > _____________________________ > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
