Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > (snip what i had said before ) > Well, different strokes. Personally, I find the Pentax DS very much > alike to my old Nikon FM/FE2 and use it in much the same way. Of > course, it has a lot more features which I use when it seems > appropriate, but overall I just take pictures with it and consider > the SD card the equivalent of film, only I don't have to do film > processing. Photoshop and the Epson printer operate as I used a > darkroom in eons gone past
I only did BW in the darkroom and early on, some ciba... but I also consider digital in the same way. ... only the results are better but I'll > leave that argument to others to natter over ;-) natter another day -- ... Never could > stand what photofinishers did with my photos so that option was never > acceptable for me. I mainly shot slides and never pritned them - except for a few shows and a couple of years of doing cibachrome. never did color negs myself > > I never read the warnings in the manuals and so far have not > destroyed either of the bodies. Nor found them unresponsive in the > same conditions I used all my other cameras over the years so I don't > know what all the warnings in the manuals are all about. Yet more > evidence of a deranged society's need for abundant over- > protectivisms, I suspect. that's true - but I've alwasy been a little shy of handling things that were electronic and only do it under duress. If anyone can mess them up I can. > > Curious that you focus on the battery door so much. I've not found it > to be fragile at all. With 16,000+ exposures on two DS bodies, > swapping NiMH batteries out every week for charging most of the time, > I've certainly exercised the door quite a bit on both and it doesn't > seem to be having any problems that I can tell. Well, I suppose the one on the camera I bought may just be a lemon itself but I couldnt get it to close and it was hard for my fingers to open it... The sales guy actually agreed that it was particularly frail. > > Once you have a DS set up the way you want, you almost never need to > go into the main menu to do anything. It would be nice if the meter > pattern selector and focus mode selector was in the Fn menus like the > ISO and drive modes, but I hardly ever change the settings anymore. > Most of what I touch is > - the exposure mode selector for Tv-Av-M, > - the aperture-shutter-exposure comp thumbwheel and button, > - the Fn menu for ISO setting, > - and the AF-MF switch > (at which point I also use the lens' focusing ring in MF mode). Seems > pretty close to what my film cameras had except for the AF-MF switch. Did you ever have a KX or a K-1000? REmember , except for briefly, I never had anything that was auto for years - xcept for a light meter... I never had auto focus lenses and I never used the LX in auto mode nor did I even own a flash. > > Personally, I prefer ring-operated zooms, push-pull zoom controls are > difficult to use with precision. But I rarely use zoom lenses anyway, > I have three but only really use one of them (the FA20-35) with any > frequency. I usually just set a focal length and then start framing > and shooting ... in other words, it's like having four primes in one > lens. WHen I shot film my mainstay was the 1.4 50mm and my 100 macro which I still have occasionally the 28mm got used -- and used more the harder it became for me to focus - I'd just st the hyperfocal distance thingy on f8 and let her rip > > Anyway, you like and want what you like and want. "No matter where > you go, there you are." Enjoy the Pro-1 and don't worry about it. > > G > Me no worry - ann > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
