Hi guys and gals, I tried to stay a bit apart from the current discussions about the changes, but I guess it is time to share some of my thoughts.
I *really* cannot understand those who blaim the lack of a aperture ring just to jump into a Canon system... I cannot understand Rüdiger's statement about his 20 F/FA lenses... I can only think that he is not so happy with them, otherwise why decide to throw them away for a bunch of Canon zooms? Those lenses are already compatible with the incoming *istD, so what? Are you thinking of buying new lenses that 'probably' will be available in FAJ mount only and you are afraid of not being able to use them on the older cameras? With a camera of another brand it'll be the same, but you won't be able to use your F/FA lenses on it then... It seems to me that a lot of people is becoming too... frenzy about digital. If you are in a hurry and need a digital SLR now, no need to complain. Go out a buy one, of the desired brand. Even the Sigma SD9 and the Canon cameras can accommodate a 42x1 screwmount lens with the proper adapter, for the joy of the collectors and screwmount users... I'm not a luddite (well, maybe a bit...) and don't feel too brand loyal. I use Nikon as well as Pentax (not to mention a Canon XL1 camcorder with two lenses), and I have fine af lenses in N mount too. but I have more money invested in Pentax lenses, cameras and accessories. With a partial frame digital camera, like the *istD, I have equivalent lenses from 22mm to 600mm, af and mf (counting the A, F and FA lenses), while in N mount (ie. on a D100) I can currently cover from 27mm to 315mm (af, of course; adding one or two lenses to fill the gaps would be easy, though). I do need a digital camera. I would save a lot of money that I spend on film too many times. But not always. A Pentax brand camera is what I need for what I do, simply because that's what I use the most in the situations when I fell the need for digital. Ciao, Gianfranco PS: Just to add a bit of more confusion: according to various side by side tests in different Italian magazines (TuttiFotografi, Fotografia Reflex), wrt image quality (sharpness, contrast, detail), among the Canon 10D, Nikon D100, Fuji (S2 pro?) and Sigma SD9 the winner is... the Sigma! I'm not talking about billion of words, but the published test images. There's a picture where some banisters are in the center of the frame. The blown up detail shows colour fringes (if not a total lack of detail) in all the pictures except in the Sigma's, where the vertical lines are clearly visible (not to mention some oblique lines...). All cameras were tested with a 28-70/2.8 Sigma lens in different mounts. My thought is: I don't think I'm going to spend more for IS, USM etc. if I cannot have fine detail in a picture, if the added sharpness is not going to show in a print. ----- Original Message ----- From: Rob Studdert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 8:49 AM Subject: OK Survey time (was:Paradigm change of Pentax...) > On 9 Jun 2003 at 8:27, Dario Bonazza 2 wrote: > > > That's exactly my opinion too. > > > > > as well as a LX, a Z-1p and a Mz-s. > > > I will not buy anymore lenses, I will start to sell a part of my equipment to > > > have the money for buying a 10D and with 3 lenses. Now, I can understand Boz > > > (K-Mount page) very well, who changed to Canon. > > OK the D *ist isn't in our hands so we can only speculate based on what's been > reported. So given what is known who of those of us that envisage moving into > digital are likely to purchase a D *ist and why? > > Who of us think it's time to move to the dark side and why? ===== __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com
