Wednesday, December 1. 2004
Digital SLR (Finally took the plunge...)
Weelllll, I have finally taken the plunge and replaced my Pentax (film) SLR with a Pentax Digital SLR -- the Pentax *ist-DS. I had been debating between the Nikon D70 and the Pentax *ist-DS, but already having Pentax lenses which I could use on the Digital SLR model tipped the decision in favor of the *ist-DS. Also, the reviews from DPReviews and Steve's Digicams helped. Initially, I did have to jump through some hoops to get some of my older lenses (which did not have an "A" automatic setting) to work correctly on *ist-DS. Fortunately, an old friend of mine from junior high (who is much more knowledgeable about photography than I am) found the correct voodoo that made it work (thanks Charles  ! ).I did have to buy a new flash (Pentax AF-360 FGZ) -- which is going to take some getting used (my previous flash was a very old manual Vivitar). |  |
