I have only one lens worth much. I have four Pentax lenses, but the sale of my 300 might fund a jump to another camera format. I mainly shoot nature and landscapes. I do zero people photography. My brother in law tried to convince me that people add scale to the shot. I think they ruin my landscape shots. I printed a 35mm slide out to 16x24, but I would think a bigger negative would make a better print.
I have my sensors confused. I knew Sony made a 8 meg sensor, but I was thinking of the canon sensor. Yes, I know it is an evil word, but in a year I would be surprised if that canon 8 meg sensor isn't in a camera at the 10D price point. This is what makes Canon so tempting. I can replace my wife's 35mm canon A2 with the 10D and start to get a few high quality lenses. When the 8 meg sensor comes into a camera I can afford, then I could buy it, having already procured the lenses for my wife. This is what is so frustrating about Pentax. There is no pentax path of this kind. Ah, and before you say why not just buy the *istD for the wife, she would look at me like I had three heads if I tried to get her to shoot with it. Even though she loves the output of my LX, she knows. and loves, the EOS system (you know, turn the dial to the running guy so she can shoot a tennis match.)
This is where Pentax has, and is continuing, to miss the boat. How many of us who love to shoot with Pentax gear jump ship because either the product we want isn't available or we don't have faith that they will ever produce the product we need until 1 to 2 years after it has been produced by other manufacturers? I know an avid Pentax fan who sold all his Pentax 35mm gear a couple of years ago and bought a D30. He couldn't wait anymore. His next digital camera purchase will most likely be Canon's 1Ds. Pentax lost a dedicated user because they didn't make the product he needed.
Okay, my ranting is finished for tonight. Hopefully Pentax will surprise me and prove me wrong.
Jeff At 05:54 PM 6/29/2004, you wrote:
Jeff If you have one lens and the LX - keep it it you want to use it (film) occationally. Don't buy MF unless you shoot HUGE prints of landscapes and Portraits. Buy a digtal. I haven't used my 6x6 outfit (camera and 5 lenses, 3 viewfinders etc.) since I got my 5 MP SONY. It's very convenient, and in some ways better than 35mm. Very clear photographs with no grain and no hazzle and better DOF. This (not mine) was done at open aperture 2.0 and 1/40 sec (!) with a Canon G5 (5MP): http://www.fotokritik.dk/visstort.html?pic=81895 What more do you want, really?
The Canon 10D is remakabley good (judging from photgraphs posted on many websites). So is the *ist D, really! I have app. 20 lenses for 35mm Pentax, Bellows A, winders, refconverter, tele concerters etc. as well as 6 bodies. If I didn't, I wouldn't hesitate to buy a Canon 10D or a similar (Pentax) camera. But I love my Pentax gear - and all I really need is a digital Petnax body. You are "free" to do what ever you want.
If we wait for det Baby D, the film gears may have lost even more market value...perhaps... All the best Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt
-----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Jeff Post [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 29. juni 2004 20:07 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Selling Pentax 35mm gear (WAS RE: Beautiful SF1n kit, Voigtlander Perkeo 120 folder)
Jens, I am wrestling with that same question, although it sounds as if you have far more gear then me. My largest investment is in a single lens. Since the *istD works with A* lenses, I do not expect them to depreciate considerably. The value of my LX I expect to drop like a rock, if it hasn't already. The questions become, do I buy an *istD, do I sell all my 35mm gear and buy a cannon 10D, do I sell my 35mm gear and buy a 645 or 67? If I thought the *istD was going to evolve into yearly updates with either bigger sensor size or greater megapixel sensors I would not consider anything else. With all the talk of a babyD I would be surprised to see anything above the *istD (even if it was only the Sony 8 megapixel sensor slapped in) for a couple of years. Jeff
