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- From: jab@Ingres.COM (jeff bowles)
- Subject: About the 10S (a short story)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.044633.2327@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Reply-To: jab@Ingres.COM (jeff bowles)
- Organization: Ingres, an Ask Company, Alameda CA 94501
- Date: 1 Jan 93 04:46:33 GMT
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- [Summary for those who want the punch line: gimme a suggestion
- for a subject to shoot. I haven't seen one of the photo exchange
- thingies in a while, or I'd use its topic. Ya see, I just got this
- new 10S, and....]
-
- I have been ignoring the LONG chain about N90 versus 10S (I didn't
- even really notice the Subject line!) until recently. When I found
- myself looking to get back into 35mm (my FM2 and lenses was stolen
- a couple of months ago, and I got a Pentax 645 to play with and
- decided medium format wasn't my bag since I don't have darkroom and
- don't have patience to wait a week for developing and don't have
- beaucoup bucks for lenses for a 645!) I looked at the Nikon line and
- the Contax line.
-
- Contax, you'll recall, gets you access to Zeiss lenses. (Yum.) But
- they're pricey, at least as pricey as the 645 lenses I was bitchin'
- about.
-
- The dealer at Adolf Glasser in SF pointed my at the Canon line, and
- talked up the 10S. (He'd listened to me say "I want the ability to
- just let it do it all, or to let *ME* do it all.") Within 5-10
- minutes, I was sold, and they arranged to find one from another
- store.
-
- (In my eyes) the rec.photo string bears this out: to me, it seemed
- to say "if you are starting from scratch, the 10S is terrific; if
- you have an investment in lenses, the Canon direction ignores your
- investment, somewhat. Nikon doesn't do that to you, quite."
-
- So I now have a new 10S, a 25-80 zoom, and the Sunpak flash I had
- with the Pentax (replaced the adapter with a Canon one), and I've
- made a promise to myself:
- *** NO NEW EQUIPMENT ***
- I figure that I should now spend "quality time" making pictures, not
- buying more toys. Experience is the best teacher, and all that.
-
- So given that I'm in San Francisco most of the time, and this is
- the equipment I have, gimme a couple of suggestions what to do a
- "photo essay" on. It's just for myself, but I figured I'd ask
- for ideas.
-
- And by the way, "thanks" for contributing to that string on the
- N90 and the 10S. It was really helpful for me.
-
- Jeff Bowles
-