>Do I want to go to that expense again for equipment that is already >aging and for which there may never be new parts again?
scrolling past all the other opinions, If it makes you happy, sure. Pentax cameras last a good long while, and the K lenses work on the digitals anyways. Plus, film is enjoyable to process, and personally I adore the way slide film looks although it may be a very long time until computer screens and scanners compare and also catch up to my checkbook. Additionally, I have an old me-f that has no cover on the battery compartment, so I just shoot manually. I enjoy the challenge and hope it keeps me good at metering by eye. I guess it's just a personal thing. In my mind, it's like asking, 'should I care about watercolors?' or, 'should I care about hand-drafting?'. Well, personally I can draft on the computer and use paint programs quite handily, but I enjoy drafting out a plan by hand or spending a few hours painting. And yes, it's nice to load pictures from my camera straight to my computer. So is film dead? Only if you don't want to use it. rg2 On 5/6/08, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > True. After trying the magnifier eyepiece on the K10D I took it off. > While it helped with critical focus in some situations, I had trouble > seeing my composition. > Paul > On May 6, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > > > On May 6, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Lucas Rijnders wrote: > > > >> Take a static subject, put your eye to the finder and let it roam > >> around > >> until you're satisfied? > >> > >> I'm not even being flippant: I liked both the OM-1 and the MX. What > >> is the > >> big deal with eye-relief? > > > > I want to see the whole frame in a glance, without moving my eye > > around physically behind the eye piece. What you wrote above is fine > > for a static subject and plenty of time to look around. A lot of > > subject matter does not allow such a studied approach to the > > viewfinder. > > > > Godfrey > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > > and follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
