On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Stan Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> wrote: > Thanks (I guess) for the recent and previous discussions of the K-x. I am > about to buy one for my wife, sight unseen, and am trusting that it will suit > her. > > Long ago and far away when we first met she was using a Spotmatic. I was > using an ME-Super, convinced her to change so we could share lenses. As I > moved sporadically through a few generations of Pentax SLRs and DSLRs, she > gravitated toward P&S cameras which is a shame because she has a great eye > for an image. My father-in-law passed away two weeks ago. During the last few > months, one of the few things that caught his interest was playing with his > Nikon D50 or looking at the photos Meg took with that camera. The Hassleblad > gear went to Meg's brother, the Leica gear to her sister, and I convinced her > to let the Nikon digital also go to her sister. "If you buy a Pentax, which > is a better camera, you can use some of my lenses." "And it comes in pink!" I > think we'll be ordering a black one soon from B&H. Hopefully it proves to be > as suitable to her hand as the D50 was. The alternative was for me to buy a > K-7 and pass a K20 on to her, but from all that you have said, the K-x > smaller size will be much appreciated and may make the difference as to > whether she actually uses it to any degree. > > stan
Having used both the D50 (now passed on to my Girlfriend) and the K-x, the latter is much nicer to work with. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
