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Digital Dreams

21 years ago

Here I sit, snow raging outside and birds flocking to my upper deck feeders.everyone from starlings to finches to titmice to four pairs of cardinals to a sharpie have landed up there this morning. Ive been snapping away with my SLR and long lens..each picture better (I hope) than the previous. My SLRS (yes I have four camera bodies) are all film. My digital is a very goos 5 mp point and shoot with just a 3x optical zoom..great for keeping in my purse and for digiscoping. Alas didscoping won't do me any good at this range..all the feeders are within twelve feet of where I'm sitting. I'm beginning to think that it's time to invest in a DSLR to fit my lenses. Instant gratification here I come. as soon as i save up $1000. LOL

judy

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realracer2
21 years ago
I also had 4 film slrs. I traded one slr body with motor drive and an old range finder camera in on a digital slr. You might consider doing this to bring you closer to your digital dream.
sarahbn
21 years ago
They will be going down in price and if you can wait canon is coming out with a new digital rebel. Sarah
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I have much sympathy for you. I have just been organizing my email after being guilted by visiting relatives who were horrified at my 24000 emails. I had tried to organize it before but have had more success this time by creating files and moving stuff I need to save to those files and then deleting what's left. For ex I'll do a search for anything with our schools name, move all those to the school file. Once I was pretty sure I'd moved everything of importance I deleted everything that was left in my inbox. The panic I felt doing this made me realize I was a bit of an electronic hoarder. And to be honest my hoarding helped after our house fire. When insurance questioned that the chandelier cost as much as it did, I was able to pull up the emailed invoice from RH that was probably ten years old. I had to do this many times as I order a lot online and insurance wants to give you the Walmart equivalent unless you can prove otherwise. Kind of felt vindicated for my hoarding. But really did need to get it under control. You've inspired me to tackle pics next.
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cutterpup
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21 years ago
Hi..actually when the time comes I'll be buying a pentax DSLR. I have way too much invested in pentax glass to switch systems. Someday will proably be here sooner than I think. I'll just have to be patient.
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realracer2
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Having bought my first Pentax over 40 years ago, and it still works great, I also had a lot of Pentax glass. I have had my Pentax ist*D for a year now and have not shot any film since I bought it. It works fine with all my old lenses. The new ist*Ds also would work fine with all your old lenses.
cutterpup
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21 years ago
"I have had my Pentax ist*D for a year now and have not shot any film since I bought it. It works fine with all my old lenses. The new ist*Ds also would work fine with all your old lenses."
That's exactly why I'm sticking with pentax..unfortunatly both the ist*D and the newer ist*DS each have features that I want making it hard to choose between them. maybe by the time I have the money saved there will be another one out. What I really want is the PZ1p in digital.
judy

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