Boris, I am not a bleeding edge lover or an equipment geek. I'm a photographer. I don't like to make allusions or generalizations like that. I buy new equipment to further my photographic work, nothing else.
My attitudes in regard to what lenses to buy are colored by the fact that with the kind of quality we get out of the 6 and now 10Mpixel Pentax DSLRs, I see absolutely no point in shooting 35mm film at all anymore (except for reasons of nostalgia). If I need more quality for larger size printing, the only direction to go is medium format or larger at this time. And I await the Pentax 645D. Others with more specialized needs, like Ralf's industrial night shots and astrophotography, might still need 35mm film's characteristics, but those are not my concerns. So I wouldn't even consider biasing new lens purchases to accommodate a 35mm SLR at this point ... it's a complete waste of money in my eyes. I would only buy new lenses for the new DSLR bodies. The best lenses for the current and future bodies are the ones Pentax is producing now, not the ones they produced in the past. It's nice that the older lenses can be used successfully and perform well on the DSLR bodies, but it is irrelevant to my new lens purchases. G On Nov 28, 2006, at 5:22 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > Godfrey, I want to be able to use my lenses both on film and on > digital. Why? Just because! I mean no offense, it is just that I shoot > few film frames every now and then. > > It appears to me (although I may be potentially wrong) that > photography as a technology has submitted itself to Moore's law. Thus > I cannot be sure if in so many months some kind of breakthrough will > happen that will make me very unhappy. Since I don't deal in gear but > rather use it, I decided I should be very careful not to bleed my > money all over the bleeding edge... > > Again, no offense, just my considerations. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
