Given the many wonderful things that have been pictured by Hasselblads, would one really need a viewfiner? > On 25 November 2020 at 20:36 John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 04:36:08PM -0500, Ken Waller wrote: > > Better get a Sherpa for that 800 lens. I haven???t shot mine 600 in many > > moons. Just too damm heavy. > > It was just a few years ago I was traipsing all over Denali with it! > > I'm holding on to my 250-600 for one last road trip, but after that > it will probably be up for sale. > > But, as others have stated, I shoot Pentax because it works for me, > and switching to another brand would be expensive. I'm beginning to > wonder about switching to Olympus, though - every year it gets harder > and harder to carry a bag full of gear around (I think gravity is > getting stronger). > > I've related my Pentax history before, but just in case anybody here > is interested: > > With my first paycheck from my first job after graduating I took a > trip from Manchester to Leeds Camera Centre and bought myself a > Spotmatic II with the 50mm/f1.4 lens. This was the most expensive > purchase I'd ever made, but it was put into perspective by the > person ahead of me in line, who paid rather more than my setup cost > me for an accessory viewfiner for his Hasselblad ... > (This was in 1972 - a few months before the Spotmatic F came out) > > In 1976 I switched to an MX as my primary camera. A couple of years > later I got a one-year assignment in New Zealand, so I stopped off > in Singapore on my outward journey and added an ME, an 80-200 zoom, > and a 28mm/f2.8 to the camera bag (plus a second 50mm/f1.4 - the sum > I'd budgeted for the upgrade went quite a bit further in Singapore!) > > That MX served me well - I've still got it - but over the years I > picked up a Super Program (A lenses!), a PZ-1p (auto-focus) & an MZ-S. > I also made the mistake of comparing the results from my 80-200 zoom > and an A* 200/2.8, which opened another hole to throw money into. > By looking around on the used market I was able to replace my old > zoom with an FA* 80-200, and also added an A* 300/2.8 (which, with > the oddball F1.7X AF, gave me a very usable 500mm auto-focus lens). > > Then came the digital revolution. Pentax were late to the party, but > I got one bit of good luck from that - some editors began to require > digital image submissions. Apparently one long-time Pentax pro shooter > made the switch to digital and sold off his Pentax gear. I was sitting > at my desk at work one day, and idly browsing the rec.photos.marketplace > newsgroup, when somebody made a joke posting about this 'real bargain' > to be had at Charlotte Camera - an FA* 250-600/f5.6 for 'only' about 40% > of street price (roughly 25% of list price) - still not exactly cheap! > This had always been my dream lens for motorsports photography, but > I'd never seriously thought I'd ever get one - they never came up on the > used market, and even the street price was way above my budget. But this > one was just inside the top end of what I could afford, so five minutes > later it was on its way to me. > As soon as the *istD came out I bought one. Over the years I moved to > a K10D, and later a K-5, plus the DA* 16-50, 50-135, and 60-250 lenses. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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