Old it may be, but my *ist-D still knocks out perfectly good A4 size prints if needed, and still mainly works as designed. I can no longer zoom into a frame on the LCD screen, but otherwise everything works as well as it did when brand new. It was such a ground-breaker for Pentax - both former PDML-er Ryan and I both bought two, and while Ryan now shoots with the dark side, I think he enjoyed the camera for some while. I eventually sold my second *ist-D to another former PDML-er, Tanya, who used it to start her now very successful professional career. What with owning an SV for 7 years ( and now owning another which I still use from time to time), two ME's for 13 years, and recently shooting mainly with my now 17-years old MZ-S, I have great respect for the quality of Pentax camera design and manufacture.
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Malcolm Smith Sent: Tuesday, 1 September 2015 00:48 To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' <[email protected]> Subject: Enablement of an older kind. 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 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. Malcolm -- 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. -- 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.
