On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Subash <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 12:51:34 -0500 > Adam Maas <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> 10-20 at 10mm when I was still shooting APS-C and now my Tamron 17/3.5 >> is my go to lens for wide-angle work (Equivalent to an 11.5mm on >> APS-C, I'm shooting 35mm film these days) > > adam, no offence meant but in the 2.5+ years i have been on this list, > i have seen you go from a k100d, an *ist DS, a k10d, film, MF, > things-i-forget, d300, panny g1, things-i-forget, film again... and all > i can say is WOW! ;-) > > what are you really looking for? or is that too frivolous a question? > > like i said, no offence meant, i am really curious... > > regards, subash
Note I'm still shooting with the G1 as well. It's partnered with a pair of old Nikon film cameras (FE2 and FM2n) as my main kit at the moment. I also still shoot MF, but for various reasons I mostly don't shoot MF during the winter. Generally I shoot more digital when I'm doing colour work and more film when doing B&W work. And I've been shooting Nikon film kit without break since 2001 while going through all those DSLR's. What I've been looking for is a body akin to the FE2 and FM2n, with good high ISO performance (ISO 3200 minimum), decent resolution and a viewfinder comparable to those bodies, along with compact size and reasonable weight. Which is why I've been shuffling around so many digital bodies (At last count, in order: *istD, D50, K100D, EOS 10D, *istDS, K10D, D300 later with a D40 as a second body and now G1). The K10D and D300 were the closest to what I was looking for, but I needed more high ISO capability than the K10D delivered and the D300 was frankly just too big (Other than size and the merely decent VF by my standards, the D300 pretty much nailed what I was looking for). I didn't look at the K20D for lens lineup reasons, I very much like Pentax's lineup except for the lack of f1.4 lenses outside the 50-58mm range (My Nikkor 35/1.4 is a bread and butter lens for me these days), I'd really like to see Pentax deliver a f1.4 normal and wide-normal (30-35 and 24). -- 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.
