Well, your DS should arrive about the same time as the CD with the
firmware update, etc, does. Something to look forward to. ;-)
Godfrey
On Aug 31, 2005, at 9:45 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
I'm jealous. Mine arrived early this morning at the FedEx
distribution
center, about 20 minutes drive from Casa Belinkoff, but FedEx won't
deliver
it until 9/2 and they won't allow me to pick it up, either. The SD
card
that I ordered hasn't arrived yet, so the camera wouldn't do me
much good,
although I could read the manual and do some preliminary fondling.
Nice to hear that the AF is acceptable.
Shel
[Original Message]
From: Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Yeah, Shel, and I just ordered one today, too. Gee, it looks
like some
of the real old-timers are seriously goin' dijahtel - <g>.
Well, it just came, and it surely does look purty...
Not much else here is going to get accomplished today - <g>.
Well, one thing I had to accomplish was updating the firmware to V.
1.02 -
I
was surprised to see that the new DS came with the V.1.00
firmware, and I
wanted to be able to use a 2 GB card. The process took less time
than it
did to read the update ReadMe file (well, maybe not, but ~almost~
- <g>).
Although most of my lenses are manual focus ones, I did want to play
around
with the DS with an autofocus lens on it, and so on went the F
70-210/4-5.6
(the smallest of my three af lenses). Although I haven't used the F
70-210
much before, it does seem to work rather well on the DS (well, at
least to
this digital newbie it does - <g>). In particular, I am rather
surprised
with how fast the autofocusing seems to work, even in fairly dim
light,
and
even though f/4 to f/5.6 isn't overly fast. And that stingy F-series
focus
ring becomes a non-problem with autofocus...
