Shel Belinkoff wrote:
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
Good for you, Shel! Enjoy yourself.
