Originally posted by MrB1 That's an interesting and intriguing comment, Dave. Is this a personal subjective feeling, and/or is it something that you are able to explain?
Philip
I agree that it's a purely subjective thing, but I guess that for me picking up my old K1000 again feels like coming home. I've been shooting with that camera since 1980, mostly with Kodachrome for as long as it still existed, and all my efforts with digital photography have been about trying (and never succeeding) to recreate the sensation of shooting K64 with a K1000. I've always done my digital shooting almost exclusively with Takumars on the GX-10 version of the K10D, which at least gave me some of level of direct tactile contact with the picture taking process. But then last year I gave away all my Taks during a period of personal crisis, and now my GX-10 has been broken in an accident, and I'm feeling absolutely no desire whatever to get myself a replacement DSLR. It doesn't help that the characteristic look of modern CMOS sensors makes me want to barf.
So I've been running film through the K1000 again and it just feels so. . . right. That huge viewfinder in which I can examine every corner of the frame before I press the button. The feeling of that shutter trigger that lets me poise my finger just on the edge of it firing, allowing me a level of split-second timing that's never been possible on any DSLR I've ever handled. The ability to hit focus instantly with the fresnel ring, with the crossed microprism there in the middle just in case I want to check that too. Heck, even the pleasure of throwing the thumb wind.
Like I said, I'm planning to pick up a digital compact for my more casual snaps, and I haven't fully committed myself to any final decisions yet, but the fact that I'm spending a lot of time online looking for replacements for my favourite M series lenses for the K1000 says it all.