On Tue, Sep 1, 2015, at 12:48 AM, Malcolm Smith wrote: > I recently got a nearly new camera for very little money. Embarrassingly > little money. Camera with a couple of hundred shutter activations, all > boxed > as new, with all the original packing. Still works perfectly. I'll tell > you > that it takes a CF card and you'll know it is an *ist D.
I got an *ist D a few years ago from Mark C to replace my *ist DS when it died - well, it didn't actually die. The shutter release button stopped working but I could still use the camera by plugging in a cable remote. Anyway - I never really warmed to the D, fine camera that it was (is), mainly because the menu structure was so different to that in the DS. I eventually got the DS repaired and I occasionally fire up both cameras just for old time's sake. > > I still have a new unused D-BG1 grip for it, which I found some three or > so > years after I'd sold my *ist D. I had forgotten how good a camera it is, > and > given how much it was new at the time, it should feel that way. Going to > see > how it gets on over the next few weeks, I still have the 16-35mm kit lens > somewhere. > > I also finally found out what that daft name was supposed to mean. The > '*' > is a symbol for a wildcard, and the 'ist' ends the wildcard word, such as > Scientist, Artist etc... So still a daft name and now I know it was a > daft > idea for a name too. > In my case the '*' stands for 'masoch'. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.com - The professional email service -- 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.
