I have an English class at a local mall every other Friday. Well, this past Friday I had the class and afterward my husband and I walked around the mall like we usually do and happened to notice the camera shop was having a sale. Looked around and saw a Pentax K200D with a 18-55mm lens on sale for about $500. We had seen the same camera + lens kit for $550 earlier in the week, and decided that if the camera was still there and on sale Sunday we'd get it.

Well we went back on Sunday and it was still there. THEN I noticed it was not just body + 18-55mm lens, but actually body + 18-55mm + 50-200mm! Body and two lenses for $500.

I practically ran to the ATM to get out the money. The guy who checked me out kept complimenting on my Japanese and gave me a guidebook on the camera in Japanese for "reading practice". He also said that as long as I could find the screw mount adapter for it, I could use my old Spotmatic lenses with it, but they didn't have any screw mount adapters in stock.


When we got home I messed around with settings, manual focus, auto focus, RAW, JPG, and a bunch of other things on it. My three deviations from yesterday are some of the results. It's going to take me a while to get used to looking through a viewfinder again, especially one that's not like that in my Spotmatic (I miss my little focus circle), but I'm excited to learn how to work with RAW.
Maybe I'll finally be able to do this idea dealing with vision/sight that I've had in my head for over a year. Just need a tripod now.