>>> I have pentax lenses. I want pentax to make a decent body with features something like the N1 has. Not another lame body that drifts farther and farther away from the basic capabilites that I want, and that all other manufacturers seem to provide at some level. Every time I get another Pentax lens I always debate with myself. The debate is whether I should continue with Pentax, or switch to another manufacturer who is actually introducing new bodies that are capable, or retaining and/or upgrading the older capable bodies. I wait for some sign from Pentax that they are going to turn around and make higher end equipment again. Bolo -- Josef T. Burger <<< Bolo, Contax users feel the same way about Contax lenses that you feel about Pentax bodies. The limited lens line has been a sore point with Contax users for many years. If it didn't make what you needed, chances are you were out of luck. No system is perfect, and no system offers everything. It's frustrating to want something that is never offered, but the waiting game is really quite futile in my view. So many photographers are waiting for their company to release a particular thing, and are then highly disappointed when new gear arrives and it's not to their imagined specifications. Once we indulge in this habit of mind, it goes on forever. Even if the "perfect" piece of equipment comes along, it will still have one or two features that are crucial to us but are missing, or it will have expensive features we don't want to pay for. Something will be wrong. It's best simply to pick a couple of features that are most important to you and buy into the system that offers what you most need, and let the rest of the chips fall where they may. I loved the Contax Aria, but I want a 50mm that has good bokeh (blur), since some of my pictures are taken at wide apertures and have lots of blur in them; Pentax has this and Contax doesn't. I wanted a 35mm f/2; Pentax has this and Contax doesn't. I wanted an 85mm f/2; Contax doesn't offer that either, while Pentax offers something very close to that in the 77mm and then there is always the older 85mm f/2 manual-focus. So, I shoot Pentax. It doesn't mean that I think everything about Pentax is perfect. It's simply that it offers what I need most. I think if what you want is a full-featured, pro-line body, you really should switch to Nikon or Canon. Those are the brands that compete for the business of the full-time pros. Pentax isn't going to join that competition now. Life's too short to sit around waiting for Pentax to introduce the equivalent of the EOS-1v or F5. That's just my two cents, as the saying goes. --Mike - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Visit the PUG at http://pug.komkon.org.
