Sometimes stuff isn't really worth enough to sell.
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of P. J.
Alling
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 2:49 AM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: A Dilemma
So here's the Dilemma. I've been trying to decide which Camera the
*ist-D or the DS I should keep as a backup. I can't really justify
both. The major problem with selling the *ist-D is that it's for all
intents and purposes worthless monetarily, (it's the most beat up, and
needs some repair, probably more than it's worth). It will never be a
collectors item, and while I like it well enough it never grabbed my
heart the way that an MX or LX could. It was however a milestone in
that it was Pentax's first marketed DSLR.
The user interfaces of both the Ds and and D are infuriatingly different
from the K20d, though similar enough to it and each other to keep me
guessing. I hate to think of the number of times I've hit the AE lock
on the K20 when I wanted the Green button, and then realizing my mistake
trying to hit the green button in the wrong place! ...and I've only had
the K20 for less than two weeks. I've got the OK button on the Ds
programmed to select the center AF sensor, and once again I keep hitting
the OK button when I want to preform that function on the K20... The
rear wheel on the *ist-D is simply in the wrong place <period>. The
*ist-Ds uses the same cards, the same USB cable, and has the rear wheel
in just the right place, (but then it's the only wheel it has). The
*ist-D has a PC connector, a two wheel interface though one is badly
placed and unfortunately uses different cards, and a different USB
cord. However the D feels more solid, (the rubberized grip material is
more like the material on the K20 and is solidly attached to the camera,
the Ds grip material has peeled off a couple of times almost causing me
to lose the red self timer/infrared sensor lens. The pop up flash on
the *ist-D seems more substantial, (the operant word being /seems/).
The D shoots 6 Raw frames at 2.6 FPS, the DS shoots 5 raw frames at 2.8
fps, honestly I've seldom run into the limits in my style of shooting,
but the Ds does clear it's buffer quite a bit faster. The Ds grip is a
bit more comfortable, but I could get a vertical grip for the D, an
option that is unavailable for the DS, (well at least one made by Pentax
is unavailable), which would make it more convenient. I'd really like to
have a more similar second camera, but it's not in the budget right
now. I'm not really looking for advice, but I am torn. It's not like
either of these cameras, (at least the examples I have), are likely to
appreciate in value, so that's not much of a concern. Oh well...
--
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or
drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn
fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a
free man any more than a dog.
--G. K. Chesterton
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