SultanOfSwing

No problem, I've got my eyes on one when I have the money to upgrade. Because it's been updated recently, I think you can find some deeply discounted kits.

One thing to remember though, is that the digital sensor is smaller than film, so your old lenses will be cropped by a factor of 1.5, so your old 50mm lens will become a 75mm,, but still very useable.

Anian

12 kids invited to a birthday party - 5 positive responses, 6 turn up.

Nutek

Well, that accounts for 11 of them.

Bob

Someone willing to spend close to a grand on a camera and some glass can do a weekend photography course at the local community school, or read the manual and experiment

Part of the fun of photography that and taking interesting photos.

Anyway, todays whinge, because it wouldn't be a complete day without at least one.

Stores that are ever so slightly different from each other, but not that different...just feels weird and wrong and especially annoying when they're well off. Target has the photo studio by the photo print in one branch, by the electronics in another and then behind the groceries at the recent one we went to and they've flipped the men's and women's clothing around.

To much a creature of comfort and want to run in, grab the crap and go for this malarkey.

Nutek

One of our Stop and Shops is backwards.

zargof

So they put the bogs where the crisps are as well then?

Bob

$850 for a camera.

I remember getting a fairly decent Nikon SLR for about 50 squids when I was a teen had a couple okay bits of glass with it too. I think my sister lost it though because I never did get it back.

Speaking of glass though, adapters for DSLR's, they cost a hell of a lot more money these days than they used to!

Bob

One and the same.

SultanOfSwing

Expensive as it is - for that segment of the market for an APS-C DSLR, $850.00 is not half bad.

If you go used, you can get the equally adequate K10D for less than half that. The benefit of being able to use the same lenses that the K1000 could take is a good one though, since lenses are so bloody expensive for new ones!

Pulaski

Lowes is like that. There are three that I visit regularly, and at least four more I visit from time to time, of which four have their main entrance on the left, and two on the right, but apart from the mirror flip they have a similar layout, similar enough to be able to find things, but one is totally messed up - the whole store is much wider and shallower, so the internal layout is totally different.

Home Depot seems to delight in making every store different.

Pulaski

Pulaski's "pet peeve of the day" people who hijack a well established thread and take it totally off topic!

SultanOfSwing

Show me a thread that I haven't taken off topic, though.

Pulaski

Agreed, but I expected you to have a little more respect for the Pet Peeves thread!

SultanOfSwing

I have a loophole in that I was talking to the thread starter

Pulaski

Ah yes, Mr Peeve, himself!