I have been reading this thread & others, directly & indirectly related, with great interest. Clearly we are all different. What a dull world it would be if we weren't. On the one hand we have the die-hards who hate to move out of their comfort zone. Perhaps some still use candles, a Brownie box & ride a horse to work? At the other end of the spectrum are those who must always have the latest/newest of everything whether they can afford it or not. A lot of these are showing off their indebtedness rather than their wealth. I see them all the time in Kruger with their expensive SUV's and cameras. Fortunately, common sense prevails & most of us find ourselves somewhere in between. It would seem that there is still a great deal of interest in shooting film followed by digitisation of the negatives - even digitisation & restoration of those old slides. 25000 slides & I thought my 2000 was a lot! I still enjoy using my ME super - FF too! (Certainly a much cheaper option than any FF digital Pentax may produce in the future.) Unfortunately, the local photoshop can only give me 2Mb scans so, obviously, an Epson 500V or a Nikon Coolpix would be the way to go. Without scanners we would never have seen Paul's dragster & coffee-shop shots. Perhaps we are about to see a lot of archived stuff before it passes out of living memory? However, will film still be available in 10 years time & at what price? Then we have the relatively inexpensive microsystem cameras (like the K-01) with big sensors & live view only which are ideaI for macro work (probably all work if you don't mind looking like a tourist). If Mark keeps at it long enough, he'll eventually find two snow crystals the same! I'll eventually upgrade my K110D with a S/H K5-II in about five years time when you've all upgraded to the K5-VII or whatever they're calling it then. (Maybe a K20 on the way?) Technology has come a long way in the last 100 years & leapt in the last 20. We can't escape it but there's no reason we can't keep the past alive in a virtual living museum.
And then, Mistresses? Well, that's another story! This is what a cropped 2Mb scan of an impressive Impala ram looks like (ME super 135mm) http://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/8509240267/in/photostream Alan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
