Thanks Tim...but where are the photos? :-) I'd love to visit Japan someday. Shooting in the subway must be a hoot.
--M. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- http://www.EnticingTheLight.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 2009/9/10 Tim Bray <[email protected]>: > I had a 7-hour gap between landing at Haneda and going out at Narita, > so I managed to spend a couple hours in Shinjuku; had to pick up some > crafty stuff at Okadaya for my wife, but went by the Pentax Forum and > one of the big camera stores (BIC this time). > > Pentax Forum is a sad place these days, crammed in a 2nd-rate basement > mall, staff not interested in interaction, tiny little gallery. > There's a cool display case with tons of lenses, including the 645 and > 67 sets. But if you're going to Tokyo, don't bother finding the place > (which is a nontrivial exercise). > > The camera store was more fun. They had a display of all the high-end > small cameras in a row, and I got to fool with an OlyPen and a > Panasonic G1 and and LX3 and a Sigma DP2 and a Ricoh GRD2. Lots of > cool obscure lenses. Prices high by Canadian standards, but then they > had at least one of everything right there on the shelf. > Gaijin-friendly. > > Conclusions: The OlyPen and PanaG1 are just not enough smaller than > the K2000/K7 form factor to be interesting. I'd come from a couple of > days walking around Shimane prefecture (nobody's ever heard of it, but > it's visually appealing) with my K20+DA21-Limited welded to my hand, > and a K7 would have been better but one of the new little guys > wouldn't have been enough better to be worth the trouble. Now if > you're in a situation where you need a tele/zoom, one of the smaller > bodies with their cute little big lenses might be a winner. BTW, that > 21mm limited is just an insanely great > walk-around-somewhere-you've-never-been lens. > > The LX3 looks like being about as cool as everyone says, they had 2 on > display but were out of stock. If the big camera marts in Shinjuku > can't keep the sucker in supply, what hope is there for the rest of > the world? I suspect the new Canon S90 eats their lunch (assuming > it's good, and I bet it is), because Canon knows how to build and ship > product. > > Cheers, T > -- 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.
