Amen, William and Ken.
It all comes down to how the glass pins those photons down. Contax and
Pentax seem consistently to have the most soul in their glass (to my eyes).
As long as the box that enables the film and the lens to do the voodoo they
do so well is reasonably affordable and not unduly offensive to the hand,
I'm willing to put up with the shortcomings, when there are any.
Dan Scott
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>>> I had always thought that it was about the lenses. Discovering
>>> just how very good Pentax lenses are made the switch from Nikon
>>> pretty easy for me.
>Hi Alan and all,
>
>While the PDML is the great resource for me, I also belong to a certain
>Pentax circle in Japan. Over the years, I learned a lot from these groups
>and came to the same conclusion that William did.
>There is no question that Nikon is a great system and some of their lenses
>are superb. There is nothing to badmouth about the one or the other.
>But it is apparent to me that people in the know or those who have a lot of
>photographic experiences truly appreciate some, if not all, of the Pentax
>lenses. People who have been using the Pentax lenses for a long time very
>rarely convert to Nikon, not so much because of any kind of difference in
>catalogue performance. But those two lenses are different. Nikon lenses
>tend to be too crisp but Pentax ones are for better overall rendering
>including better bokeh etc. They are said to be more in line with Zeiss and
>Leica rendition.
>And of course Pentax star lenses are really excellent.
>When I realized this, suddenly the camera bodies became least important to
>me. And Pentax produce some very good bodies with well-thought out handling
>without blindly following robocamera fad. They may have some areas to catch
>up, but that is not because they do not have the technological ability to do
>so, but because of some other consideration which we really do not know and
>some people complain about.
>There is some controversy about the price setting of the MZ-S, but let's see
>what price Pentax come up with. I am fairly confident that the camera is
>competitively priced, as the history proved that Pentax never overpriced
>their camera bodies in the past.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Ken
>
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