I though we agreed that the *ist (no the *ist D) was entry level.
Steven Desjardins Department of Chemistry Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 (540) 458-8873 FAX: (540) 458-8878 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/30/03 03:25AM >>> Why!? As we learnt here, *ist d is an entry level camera, the 360FGZ should suffice if it is not overkill for the horde of snapshooters that are going to jump on Pentax's first dslr... :oT On another note, versatile as it is, the 360FGZ is indeed a bit underpowered. One really needs to take it off the camera in order to do some fill-in in the noon harsh light. Servus, Alin Sylwester wrote: SP> Just an observation: if Pentax is going to release *ist D in late sugust, SP> they should replace old AF500FTZ with similar power lamp that is P-TTL SP> capable. Reason? *ist D as a digital slr can't work in plain TTL with SP> flashes - so having quite popular thing like flash unit that would be SP> incompatible would be quite odd... But of course a few odd things happened SP> lately with Pentax and this is my pure speculation :-)
