Out with the old, in with the new! No, I'm net getting rid of my manual Pentax gear, but thinking about replacing my old digital camera with something newer and sharper.
I'm using a Sony Mavica, which is, at best, marginal for my needs. It does have a couple of features that I like, however. One is that it can focus very, very close, to within about an inch or so of the subject. The other is that it uses an f/1.8 fixed aperture lens. Do any other digital cameras offer these features. My biggest concern is that every camera I've looked at has a lens that only goes to about a 35mm equivalent on the wide end. Is there any camera that'll go to 28mm, or, better yet, 24mm? The Optio is a nice, small package, but its lenses are relatively slow, and of a variable aperture, and it doesn't look like it can even take an accessory WA lens, as some other cameras can. Is this the case? How close can it focus? And what about the sensor speed? Maybe I missed it in the specs, but I couldn't tell what the ISO range is on the various Optios. Hope you can help with these questions. Thanks! -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/darkroom-rentals/index.html - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
