Which is one of the reasons why I find digital a bit less satisfying than film. The impulse to "spray and pray", blasting 400 images a day and trying to find a few acceptable ones. I used to spend much more time planning a shot when there were few of them available on a roll of film.
Jeffery On Oct 24, 2010, at 8:39 PM, John Coyle wrote: > IMO, Jeffery, you were right to buy it on those grounds. It is the last > Pentax 35mm film camera , and I love using it. I've recently shot > exclusively with it rather than using digital: the need to think more about > each shot is a valuable discipline, I think, as well as it being such a > pleasure to use. > > John Coyle > Brisbane, Australia > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of > Jeffery Smith > Sent: Monday, 25 October 2010 6:41 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: The Film Body Nobody Talks About - late reply > > I have a Pentax MZ-S, and it has never had a single frame shot with it. I > bought it around the time I suspected that it would be Pentax's last film > body (I have a wealth of Pentax lenses, from 20mm to 300mm). I received it, > unboxed it, put a 50/1.4 on the front of it, and promptly got clobbered by > Katrina, followed by Rita. It remained in a Domke bag under a ton of stuff > carried from the first floor to the second floor, and got unearthed a few > months ago. A lot happened over the past 5 years. I still have a lot of B&W > film, so I'll probably put some fresh battteries in it and give it a maiden > voyage. > > Jeffery > -- > 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.