>> <Wakes up. Scratches...er, disk, checks email, yawns, peruses digest> >> >> Urp. Hi Mike! > > >Enthused greetings, good Sir. I trust you are well and hale? I'm glad to >find you here despite your recent migration to the realm of pixelation.
>--Mike Yer wot lad? Eeeeh, thee don't 'alf talk rubbish. Any road, dunno much about all this Pentax lark - all I know is pidgins... :-) Pigeon racing aside, I'm still very much a Pentax dude. We have a pair of black MXs, one retired on my desk with a 28mil 2.8 aboard. A sort of touchy-feely paperweight. The other is officially used by Her Indoors and resides in a smart black shoulder case that my son's Z-10 came in. Oddly enough it was emblazoned with 'Canon' on the flap in a fancy red thread. I'm much in favour of the low-profile look, so I soon stripped that off. With the working MX in the bag sits a Tok 17 f3.5 (the old kind), a M 35 2.8, a M 50 1.7, and a Tok 90 2.5 macro. She loves the 35mm. Stef's Z-10 has a pair of zooms (Pentax SMC-F 35-70 and cheapy Sigma 70-200) and is actually great fun to play with. The only lens I've kept back from the kit I sold was the Tokina 28-70 2.6/2.8 which I can bung on either the MX or Z-10 as a portrait backup combo. So you see - I haven't deserted the fold just yet. I've been doing some commissions recently - kid's portraits - with the D60. In a word, FUN. Even though I'm sorted now, I can't wait for the Pentax DSLR to erupt onto the stage, as quite a few people on this list will get hold of it and it will knock their socks off. Having now seen things from 'the other side', I can truly say that boy, oh boy, they sure as heck won't know what's hit them. At the end of the day, the gear is just a tool. Sure I like being nostalgic about it, just like many here. I still have a yearning for the LX and A*85 1.4 I let go of, much like an old girlfriend. But the replacement is just as sexy and much quicker to please ;-) BTW, keep up the great work - always a good read! Now geet - go on! Geet! Where's me flippin' tea? Cotsby ____________________________________ Free UK Macintosh Classified Ads at http://www.macads.co.uk/ ____________________________________ Oh, swipe me! He paints with light! http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps/ ____________________________________
