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| bratislav3162@hotmail.com wrote:
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| > Think ahead.
| > There's tons of really sharp glass for Nikon (especially second
| hand).
| > Not so great choice for Pentax. You will grow out the standard zoom
| > quickly, and then there's open road for Nikon (or Canon) but Pentax
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| > very limited.
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Canon this, Nikon that... I'm very happy with my *ist DS that I purchased a
few weeks ago... though it took a few to get it right (see my earlier post
on here "3 pentaxes in 3 days"). I'm putting that down to bad luck, though
I'm sure doomsayers on here would howl that it must mean all pentax cameras
are faulty. My DS body I have now works perfectly, it's just the operator
that needs refining!
As for the availablitiy of "glass" that people love to go on about, well
they are assuming a lot. You never said what the cameras main use will be,
or how much you would be willing to spend... apparently we all have $$$ to
spend on the latest USM f0.8 IS doohickey. Me, I'd be stoked to pick up a
pentax A 50mm 1.7 prime from a garage sale or secondhand place and play with
that. Of course future lens selction may be a big thing for you and then I
stand corrected :)
My reasons for choosing the *ist DS were: price (with 2 lenses it seemed
pretty good to start with); I had no other SLR lenses except my old canon FD
stuff; and browsing many photo forums saw me find no reason _not_ to buy the
DS. Am I happy with my purchase? Absolutely. A good article on the DS can
found over at Luminous Landscape:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/sm-jan-05.shtml
Here's some of the pics I've taken with my DS:
http://www.pbase.com/bookster/istds
Bookster
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