Older, metal, for sure, for their simplicity and larger viewfinders more
than anything else. To paraphrase a Harvard professor's remark about reading
new books, Whenever a new camera body comes out, I buy two old ones.
I assume I could still mix old bodies with new lenses, and vice versa. Yes?
If you could use either old (metal manual-focus) bodies with AF
lenses or new (AF) bodies with old (manual focus) lenses, which
would you choose?
Ooh, that's cruel, Paul, very cruel...
Fred
On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 03:30 PM, Mike Johnston wrote:
So let me ask a hypothetical question here. Asked of everyone. IF you
have
to choose between EITHER the older, metal bodied, manual focus Pentax
family
(Spotmatics, M series, A series, up to LX) ***OR*** the
Well, I don't have a lot of experience to speak from, but I do have both the K-1000
and MZ-5n now. Both camera bodies have pluses and minuses. Neither is exactly what I
want.
But considering the fact that I lost a lot of shots with the K-1000 because cranking
the film to advance it for the
Brad,
I'm one of those older Pentax users who bought stuff during the screw mount
days. I have lots of SMC Takumars that I use with my old Spotmatic and a
couple of ESII bodies. I have some K-mount lenses to use with an old LX and
a K2DMD. After playing with my Optio 230 I can see getting a
--- Brad Dobo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, we all talk about Pentax and their
position, rank and financial,
and what they will be in the future, and
really..what about that darned
DSLR? What I'm thinking is, we as a whole group are
the serious amateurs,
or professionals using
Hi tech v manual and mechanical? That's exactly the quandary I've faced
lately. My reponse, as coincidentally noted in another post today, is to
swing both ways, as explained here:
http://www.bkpix.com/gear.htm
Bob
Trouble is Jim, unless any newly launched Pentax DSLR is earth
shatteringly teeth clatteringly revolutionary, then it will be too
little too late. Many of us will hang around because we know what we
want (i.e. lenses) or we have heaps of money tied up in systems. But the
one's a company needs
In a message dated 12/18/2002 1:28:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, MAILER-DAEMON writes:
In a message dated 12/17/2002 11:50:36 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What I'm thinking is, we as a whole group are the serious amateurs,
or professionals using Pentax. We are
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:30:54 -0600, Mike Johnston wrote:
So let me ask a hypothetical question here. Asked of everyone. IF you have
to choose between EITHER the older, metal bodied, manual focus Pentax family
(Spotmatics, M series, A series, up to LX) ***OR*** the
polycarbonate-bodied, AF Pentax
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