I enjoy your colourful posts, introducing me Carl, the delivery man. Congratulation. Enjoy the camera. And please continue sharing the joy (and the downers, we like downers too ;-)) with the list.
Tim Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) > -----Original Message----- > From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 17. mars 2006 04:29 > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Subject: Pixelated Once Again > > Late this morning the big brown UPS van pulled up in front of Casa > Belinkoff, and off jumped Carl, the regular delivery guy on this route, > carrying a package from KEH which contained a LN- istDS with 5245 > exposures > showing on the clock. I had planned to get a new DS2 from Don's in > Canada, > but bad and good luck intervened. My car needs new fuel injectors, and > about the time that was discovered a list-lurker pointed me to the KEH > offering. So, for the price of a new DS2 I got a used DS and a car > repair. > > It's now time to become refamiliarized with the camera. There seems to be > a few things I've forgotten, plus the camera came with V1.0 of the > firmware, which I never used, so some things were not quite the way they > were remembered. Firmware has been updated to v2.0, and a new 1gb SD card > is about to be ordered. However, I was thinking that I might get a faster > 2gb card, which could be used to better advantage for future cameras, or > at > least allow the istDS to work at max speed and increase file xfer speed to > the computer. Any downside to that idea other than there being so many > more pics on the card making it possible to lose more photos if the card > gets filled? > > Well, I'm stoked! There's a 31mm Ltd on loan that I can play with, and > with a copy of Real World Camera Raw winging its way to La Casa as I type, > it appears that I'm about ready to continue the exploration of digital > photography. > > > Shel > > >
