My wife surprised me this weekend by saying she wants to buy another Pentax body with automatic lens. She wanted a new K100D body so she can use her istD as a one lens camera with the Pentax 50mm Macro I bought her many years ago. She wants to avoid swapping lenses for dust reasons, though in her film days she used her many manual lenses on her K1000 and Ricoh. I can’t object to her reasoning, I have a special purpose K110D and general purpose K100D.
She had been looking at the K100D from B&H for $349 after rebate. Oddly the camera with 18-55 mm kit lens was $549. The lens added only $70 when I bought my K100D. I called them about the odd pricing but gave up after I was passed around customer service once too often.
I ended up buying just the camera from B&H. We decided to forgo the "short kit" lens when she found the hard to find 50-200 mm "long kit" lens in stock at Ritz camera. She'll borrow my 18-55 mm and see if she wants both.
I >think< her sudden change of heart after 25 years of manual lenses was revealed when she mentioned the seagull photos I took when we went for a photo walk along the shore this past weekend. I was shooting hand held, 200mm, straight up toward blue sky, soaring birds, full auto, and virtually every one was in focus plus nicely exposed. She knows she could not do that manually. She is a better photographer than I but I detected a bit of envy after I bought MY first autofocus lens in November.
Last edited by LeoTaylor; 08-16-2007 at 05:37 PM.
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