Soooo... 20 years ago I needed to replace my Mamiya/Sekor DLX500. I went to the largest camera store in Philly, which stocked Nikon, Canon, Pentax, and Minolta, and shopped slowly and carefully.
In the price range I was interested in, there was the Nikon N2000, the Canon AE-1 Program, the Minolta X370, and the Pentax Super Program. The Pentax was the best of the bunch by far, =especially= in value for money. Fast forward 10 years...time for autofocus. The available cameras were the Canon A2E (EOS-5), Nikon N8008, and Pentax PZ-1. The Canon was nice but enormous, and that was a problem because I like to hike with my camera. It was close between the 8008 and the PZ-1, but again the Pentax won in value for money. I added a PZ-1p a couple of years ago. So, now I have an investment of 3 bodies and 5 lenses, and I =really= like them. I haven't been ready to fork over the cash for a D, and at this point I plan to continue to shoot film while I wait for the D successor. I'm content and in no hurry, and I very much want to stick with the brand. My =only= complaint about shooting Pentax: occasionally I would like to rent a lens (e.g an f/2.8 long zoom), and nobody rents them for Pentax--only N and C. Rick __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
