New item on my wish list
I have seen the light. Rather, someone else saw it and captured it. Now, I want to be a capturer too.
Back in a different phase of my life, I carried a camera. In fact, it was so much a part of my identity that some friends told me, twenty-five years after, that they didn’t know I wasn’t attached to the beast in a quasi-bionic manner. Times change. I lost the “holy fever”. The cameras (there were many) gathered dust, away from my eye.
Technology changed. The digipic was “in”. I tried a number of newer cameras, but the quality of the image was, in polite terms, mediocre. Bland. A cheap box of crayons.
Well, technology evolves, thank goodness. Just yesterday I was helping a colleague to resize and crop some digital photos, and all I could think is that the quality was good great. A quick peek at the EXIF data gave away the trade secret… a Nikon D50.
Google is our friend and within minutes I was a better informed consumer. For somewhat less than a family vacation, I could also own a piece of the new digital SLR age. Even better, my old friends at Pentax sell something similar, that will USE ALL MY OLD SCREW-MOUNT LENSES. That is freaking fantastic.
All you nay-sayers just put a sock in the orifice: those Takumar lenses are fine pieces of glass, with a maturity and (did I mention) glass inside. Not some cheap pressed plastic excuse for optics. So, there is a new item on my wish list. Money, don’t hide now.
