Dave,
Welcome. Sounds like you're already enabled.
You'll fit in well. ;-)
You've got a nice lens selection. Should serve you well for a long time.
I use a ZX-M and enjoy it immensely. If you get one, get the AA Battery
Pack FG.
Improves feel a lot.
Please participate in the Gallery. www.pug.komkon.org
As Jerry McGuire would have said, "Show us the pictures".
Collin
At 07:19 PM 2/9/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello PDML. I have been reading the email for a couple of weeks now. I
>have been using a Pentax Progam Plus since 1985. It came with a SMC
>Pentax A 50mm f2 and I added a Takumar A Zoom 70 - 200 f4 shortly
>afterwards.
> For the next 16 years I just took good snapshots, mainly in the A
>setting, mainly with the zoom. Kids in soccer, first day at school,
>kids at the beach, macro shots of flowers, family shots at weddings or
>re-unions, pictures of the cat waking up, We_were_there vacation shots.
>Sometimes the roll of film would stay in the camera for half the year.
> Last fall I took a smaller camera on vacation. It was a "garage
> sale"
>find and worked fairly well. But I missed some good chances because I
>had the wrong camera.
> I came back and started looking at the photography magazines. I
>checked out a few newsgroups on the internet. I started haunting a few
>of the camera shops and used camera shops in town. I saw a nice SMC
>Pentax A 28mm f2.8 and bought it. I tried B/W film again. I tried a
>few different brands and speeds of print film. Then came the 2x
>teleconverter. Then a couple of screwmount lenses (135mm and 28-80zoom)
>and the K-mount adaptor. Then a couple of books. Then I signed up for
>a Photography course. Then I started comparing the prices from the
>online stores. Then this e-mail group and I found out I could get
>"enabled", if I asked for it. Probably just in time, since I think I
>need a Spotmatic II to go with the screw mounts (do I need to put a
>smiley in about here?) and maybe a MZ-M as a backup for the Program
>Plus.
> It has been a pleasure reading the mail so far. I'm from Canada, I
>hope I didn't offend anyone yet ;-) .
>
>--
>Dave Maki
>
>Calgary, Alberta
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