Hi Paul, nice story!
Would you mind if I quoted this on a german digitalphoto forum? ( http://forum.digitalfotonetz.de/viewforum.php?f=2 ) Thomas > This morning I got together with one of the more successful part-time > pros in my area. He shoots with the Canon 10 megapixel camera (is it > called 1D), a pair of Leica M7s, and one of the 6x7 rangefinders. All > his 35mm glass is top of the line Leitz and Canon. Aside from the fact > that we're old buddies, he wanted to see the *ist D. I brought my 35mm > kit along, and let him try the camera. He immediately fell in love with > its size, layout and feel. He couldn't believe how compact it is. He > asked me which lens in my box was the sharpest. I handed him the K > 85/1.8, and he shot a few frames wide open and one or two stopped down > to 5.6 or so. He has the new PhotoShop CS plug in, so he converted the > RAWs in PS (which blew me away -- great software), and showed me how to > use some of the controls. He wanted to show me how nicely it corrects > Chromatic Aberration -- but there was none. Zero, zip. He was very > surprised to see that the lens had performed that well. He was also > quite impressed with the bokeh. He resed one *ist D file up to 140 meg, > 16 bit, and it looked great on the monitor at 100%. He's thinking he > might pick up an *ist D and a couple of lenses as a travel camera. > Score a PR win for Pentax. > Paul
