well, lasse, you see it's this way. way back when i bought i think my first SF camera i kept picking it up to find film used, settings changed etc. finally told my husband "get yer own" so he did. we just kind of kept leap frogging up the newer release ladder over the years. he bought the first digital camera (fuji 2900), i bought the next (fuji 5900) and he got the next (fuji 4900). he still has the 2900 and uses it at work, but as i get older that super nice little 5900 was just to physically small and i really missed that 35mm feel so i got the first *istD and as we go a few months later he got his. we then found that my theory of naturally going to the pentax DSLR (not that i would want to tote our daughters huge canon around) is because we already had so much pentax equipment. didn't take long to figure that the lenses that did a SUPER nice job with film wasn't going to give us the quality we wanted with the *istD so we've both purchased newer lenses in the past few months: the sigma 70-200 f2.8 EX APO and tamron 28-75 2.8. jim also uses several of his older manual pentax and takumar lenses, i did buy a super takumar 135 2.5 but as i have difficulty visually focusing it (miss that split focusing screen on the MX) i don't use it much now. hopefully my last lens purchase (who's that ROTFL out there!!!) was made last week when i purchased through ebay the pentax 100mm f2.8 macro as i do enjoy macro photography.
regarding the subject of film vs digital -- i have no problem with people that prefer film, did that for many years ourselves, we will be keeping one of our film cameras as i do need slides of my paintings to enter art shows occasionally. but i sure do enjoy knowing on the spot if i have the shot i wanted and might not have a chance to get again for a long time if ever again. plus i find myself being more willing to try some things i might not try with film due to the cost of experimentation (laughing, yeah, cuz i do know it's gonna take a while to balance the cost of the new equipment vs the rolls of film!)
thanks for the info re "sale day", i'll try to get a definite list together for next friday as there is a lot we won't be keeping any longer, at least a PZ1 and maybe my PZ1P if jim's old honeywell will do the slides, a couple of nice zoom lenses (70-200 and 28-300 sigmas), a couple of other fixed lenses, data back F, at least one flash, filters etc. please email privately if you can't wait till i get the list officially together.
oh, and if anyone is interested in a compete darkroom setup jim is letting his go, just ask privately about it.
someone asked where we are in california? atascadero which is on 101 half way between LA and SF, think they were in sacramento which is about 5 hours driving time for us. if ya'll meet somewhere half way let us know or if anyone is more our direction give a yell. i still have a lot of animals so hard for us to get away together for more than a day.
karen
Welcome to the list, Karen! You've got two *istD:s? Please give me one of them... Lasse
>Quick question. I'm going on vacation next weekend and hope to do some >nature photography (waterfalls, etc...) Should I be shooting with a >polarizer? If yes, what brand do you recommend? > >Equipment: *IstD, Tokina 28-70 2.6-2.8, Sigma 20mm 1.8 (if it gets here >before I leave), Pentax FA 135 2.8
