Try the Zoo, too, Paul. The Wildlife Photo Exhibit is held over for another month, and they have 3 tiger cubs, about 6 months old now, who are enormously photogenic:
http://groups.msn.com/wsawyerphotography/wildlife.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&Phot oID=136 (wish I were better at scanning.) -----Original Message----- From: Paul Stenquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 22, 2004 9:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: I did it. Thanks Bill. I'm looking forward to getting out to Kensington with my 400/5.6, which will now have the field of view of a 600. Should be fun. Paul On Jan 22, 2004, at 9:47 PM, Bill Sawyer wrote: > It's a brave new world, Paul......... > > Congratulations. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Stenquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: January 22, 2004 9:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: I did it. > > Well, I sold about $1200 worth of screwmount lenses in the last few > days along with my Spotmatic Motor Drive, so I ordered an *ist D. My > local camera store, which I truly appreciate, wanted $1599. B&H wanted > $1345. It was a no brainer. I also ordered the Lexar 1 gig CF card and > a card reader for my computer. I figure I'll need more cards at some > point, but at least I can get started. A couple of months ago I was > sure that I would wait for a 10 megapixel digital before buying, but I > eventually came to realize I had a lot of equipment that I not only > didn't use -- I didn't even look at it very often. Now I figure my > second digital body will be that 10 megapixel camera. The *ist D will > do nicely for now. Yeah, I'm going to miss some of my beautiful screw > mount lenses. To my mind there is nothing in the photographic universe > that is anywhere near as nice as those fluted metal barrels. But they > were probably not happy being stored in air tight bags in the back of a > dark closet. (Cesar got the best piece of screw mount glass I owned, -- > the SMC 85/1.8 . List member Bernd Scheffler got another of the great > ones -- the 120/2.8. So some of my good screw mount glass is still in > the PDML family. ) I have saved a half dozen very nice M42 lenses, and > I can still fondle now and then, so the separation isn't total. But > it's time to move on. I'm looking forward to exploring the world of > digital with my very modern manual focus K lenses <vbg>. > Paul Stenquist > (No longer a fondler) > > >
