2010/1/16 Igor Roshchin <s...@komkon.org>: > I would be glad to hear what others have to say about these thoughts.
My Pentax history.... In the northern winter of '93/'94 I was travelling around Alberta & B.C. with my dad, happily snapping away with my first SLR, Minolta SRT-101. It was an awesome trip & I got to see my shots quite soon after taking them because we were having the film processed locally almost straight away (this is very cool when driving around meeting family and being able to show them photos from where you have been,and more importantly who you had just seen). Then one day I walked into a mall and made the mistake of visiting some hole-in-the wall photographic store. I picked up a brochure for the P/Pz-20. Much paging through said brochure saw me fall in love. My uncle took me to his local dealer in Red Deer (McBain Camera) some weeks later. The rest as they say is history. I had that camera and the FA 28-105mm PZ for many years and it served me well. I drifted away from photography. But my interest was rekindled with the news of the release of it *istD. I started shooting film again and I ordered my first Ltd. Lens (31mm) when I went in to pick up the lens, I asked to have a look at the *istD. Needless to say that that was a very expensive day. The purchase of that first DSLR saw me invest in a lot more glass. FA 31mm, FA 50mm, FA 77mm, FA 80-200mm f2.8, FA 200mm f2.8, FA 300mm f4.5.....etc, etc, etc... Then came the K10D, followed by the K20D. The cameras were great, but my needs were changing and the persistence of high ISO noise & sensor amp glow continually frustrated me. I've now been shooting almost exclusively with the D700 for about 18months. I've shot more frames on that body than I did with the K10/20D combined. I'm happy I made the change. Nikon glass is crap by comparison, but the quality of camera, and the IQ makes up for it. Cheers, Dave -- 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.
