November 13, 2004

• I want to cover two things:

  1) Someone asked in email, so here it is: My Amazon.com Wish List.

  2) If you click through to that list (not that you need to or anything), you'll notice that the first item on the list is a camera that will be released for sale on the 20th. It's the Pentax *ist DS. A while back I expressed my general lust for the Olympus E300, but the Pentax beats it in one important way: You can hang K-mount lenses on the front of it. That means I already have a lens for it if I scavenge the film camera. And that I can get lenses for it off ebay (or at the thrift store) for cheeeeeep.

  This isn't really all that big a deal, since other digital SLRs can use their respective lens types, but for some reason I have an irrational desire to go with the K-mount. Maybe it's the satisfying bayonet twist-and-click... Or maybe because I've wished my film Pentax was a digital camera. Or maybe because the *ist is relatively cheap. I dunno. I know for sure, though, that the Olympus mount standard is digital-only, and thus there aren't a zillion lenses out there to use for it.

  But if anyone wants to spring for either (or both), I'd be mighty appreciative.

  Note that Pentax also has a couple of very cool (though maybe overpriced) point-and-shooters, the "I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that" OptioX, and the retro styled, 7mp Optio 750Z, which, come to think of it, wouldn't be a bad replacement for either of the cameras I listed above.

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