Yeah...I used to kid about my $700 light meter (the cost of the DS when I got it in 2005) for my Mamiya 645 1000s which has a broken CDS prism finder. That would work :-)
Bong On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Jon Paul Schelter <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been thinking about an upgrade to a K20D, D300 or D700... > > Instead of wading into the madness that is high tech, my Anna got me a > Mamiya 645 - looks like the original to me, with a penta-prism finder - I > don't really know a lot about it, but I'm excited to try it out. It seems > to be in great working order. It came with an 80mm f/2.8. > > Does anyone have advice or pointers for a novice? I'm going to need a light > meter, I guess, although I *imagine* that I can use my *istDS to give me an > EV. Is there anything I should know about moving to a 6x4.5 format? The > viewfinder is beautiful, and makes me think that I might actually be able to > take a manually focused shot. It also makes me wonder at how dependent I am > on technology these days. > > Happy Holidays to all. > > j > > On 25-Dec-08, at 12:15 PM, David J Brooks wrote: > >> Erin gave me a rather HUGE Lowprowe Pro Trekker II AW. >> >> I bought my self an SB 800 flash. >> >> New 4 Gig jump drive from Liz. >> >> Dave >> >> -- >> Equine Photography >> www.caughtinmotion.com >> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >> Ontario Canada >> >> -- >> 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. > -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- 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.
