Very nice photo!
-----Original Message-----
From: John Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 12:57 AM
To: Pentax List
Subject: *ist-Ds popping up everywhere!
I've just spent a day down at Laguna Seca, getting a few shots at the
Monterey Historics. Imagine my astonishment to run into another *ist-D
user (amongst the flood of Canon and Nikon gear). The other guy also had
a DA 16-45 in his camera bag, so I got to try it for a couple of shots.
Unfortunately it was really too wide for where we happened to be, but my
first impressions of the lens were quite favourable. The one-touch
manual focus on the *ist-D is definitely a nice feature, although I
found the focus ring a little narrow for my taste.
I guess this was karma in operation - earlier on I'd given another
Pentax user (with a SF-X) a chance to play with the FA* 80-200/2.8 while
I was using the 28-105.
Here's a shot from the afternoon (taken with the 80-200):
<http://panix.com/~johnf/temp/mh2004.jpg>
OK - strictly speaking it's not really a 'historic' candidate. But
Ferrari are the featured marque, and they brought some nice toys.
