Hello all, I've been lurking the list for a while, but thought I would break my silence and introduce myself...so...
I'm really a zuikoholic, i.e. someone who's 'addicted' to the mighty fine glass in the Olympus Zuiko lenses. For years and years I've been shooting with Olympus manual focus equipment and been very happy doing so. Supplemented with some Mamiya MF gear and some Minox submini gear, it has satisfied my photographic needs nicely. Recently, however, I have started getting into Pentax. With Olympus abandonning the 35mm SLR marked for good, I started looking around, ending up acquireing a new MZ-5n with a couple of std. zoom lenses - I think about 1 1/2 years ago. Intended for my significant other (who does not like manual focus), it was the start of a slippery slope also for me. So recently, about a month ago, I acquired an MZ-S with some std. zoom (28-70/4). While I am happy with the body (especially with the BG-10 mounted, it has a nice feel), I am not too satisfied with the lens - so the 24-90 and the 50/1.7 are ordered and should be arriving at some point in the not too distant future. Sidenote: it is hard to find a good selection of the more interresting Pentax lenses around here - even harder to be allowed to mount them on a body and take for a test drive outside the shop. So lens purchases will be a slow process, I am afraid, and I will be reading comments and reviews on the list and elsewhere very carefully. I am probably not abandonning the Olympus OM line. That would require replacing perfectly functioning equipment. However I am thus far happy with the Pentax stuff, and I suppose that I will satisfy future photographic needs through adding to the Pentax system. So slow growth is expected... Anyways, gear is just gadgets - the important part is the photos. I am fortunate enough to have a job that allows me to travel often to interresting places, and with enough flexibility to get time to see and experience the places I visit. So a large part of my photography is travel-photos (imposing "reasonable compact" and "light" as a requirement to my gear). I have an ongoing photographic project called "twilight skylines". The ultimate goal heareof is to decorate my entre with twillight skylines from the cities I visit. Another thing I enjoy to do is landscapes / nature, in pretty much any and all forms and shapes. Finally, I am doing some macro work in the nature. However that will probably be done with the OMs in the future, since the investment in equipment for that is quite substantial. I'm a heavy filter-user also, not atall subscribing to the "exact reproduction of the scene" dogma: when I go to Hawaii, e.g., I want the photos I bring home to show the sunset exactly as saturated and read as my mind wants to remember it - which may be far from reality, whatever that is :) Ohh...just a mention: my origins are Danish (hence my native language is Danish), I went to colleage in Illinous, USA, and I currently call Paris, France, for home - I even speak a bit of the local language here :) Sorry for the long introduction. I'd like to thank you all for the many interresting postings I have read on the list, and all the interresting information I have gotten thus far. I will be following the list carefully in the future, although with my limited experience with Pentax probably not contribute a whole lot. So, with your permission, I'd like to be the parasite, sucking up all the good info that you guys share, hoping to - at some point - be able to contribute something back. Best wishes to y'all --thomas
