A footnote to my earlier comments: One of the reasons I went digital was that I had experienced a lot of problems with film. The best pro lab in town kept kinking my 6x7 transparency film, frequently rendering the first one or two frames useless. The lab that was processing my color neg film had scratched a number of rolls, and dirt was becoming a constant problem. I don't miss color film. I still shoot some BW film and process it myself. But I've also found that I like the converted BW outpur of the *istD.
> I have some concerns about moving to digital, not as a replacement for film > but as a supplemental system. Having been reading many digi-threads here, > one thing keeps popping up: the various problems people have been having > with the istD. The idea of buying a camera and then working through > software and quality control issues, problems of all sorts, downloading > glitches, memory cards that fail, just seems to defeat the purpose of a > camera and lessen the experience of photography for me. I'm not > particularly interested in solving "computer" problems when out making > photographs, and have never really had many problems in all the years I've > been shooting film: One battery problem with an ME Super, a sticky shutter > release on an MX (solved by whapping the camera against the palm of my > hand), and an LX with sticky mirror. Apart from a friend dropping one of > my Leicas and needing to replace the rangefinder unit, those are the only > problems I've encountered since 1968 .... oh, my original Spotmatic had to > have the meter calibrated. > > Are these problems typical of the Pentax dslr, or are there just a few > people here with such problems who post a lot looking for help in resolving > these issues. From what I gather most of the regulars here are using an > istD. How many have had NO problems with their cameras, software, memory > cards, or what have you? Who has had serious problems, where the cameras > has had to go in for repair, or be replaced, within a year or less after > purchase? Who has had a problem, regardless of what it was, that caused a > loss of images, or prevented a shooting session from being completed? > > I've had my little Sony for 18 months or so, maybe more, and have not had a > single glitch with it. I just put in a card, make sure the battery has > juice, and point and shoot merrily all day long. Can that be expected from > the Pentax istD? > > Shel > >
