Juan wrote: Why would it be a good thing to have yet another brand making cameras like that?
Upgrading! Pentax make very nice entry level and enthusiast cameras, bus is not a player in the 35mm pro-market (5-8 FPS cameras). So, for enthusiast, who want the oportunity to upgrade later to pro-level equipment, pentax is a bad choise - since they will have to go elsewhere for 5-8 FPS bodies and F.1.4-2.8 lenses. So it kinda goes like this: If you have a hunch that you will later move on to pro level eqipment, don't buy Pentax, because this will be an expensive detour. Better to buy a Canon entry level or enthusiast camera (D300 or D350), which are also nice and small. Then you still have the oportunity to re-use some of the lenses and other accessories later - that is if you ever get that far. When you buy a Pentax you KNOW you are stuck at amateur level, unless you invest a whole lot of money in annother brand. It would be a good thing for anybody who wants to move on. All those who later went with Canon, would have had a choise. Pentax should actually pay Canon to provide a pro level camera with a PKAF bayonet. Then Pentax could start selling a lot of F.1.4-2.8 again. Pentax have failed to realize that the photographic world have moved on to 5-8FPS cameras. I wonder if they ever will - perhaps they ar quite comfetable making consumer style cameras. If so, we will se the last Pentax DSLR soon. Regards Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Juan Buhler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 24. februar 2006 03:59 Til: [email protected] Emne: Re: *IST-D / DS & High speed action! On 2/23/06, Jens Bladt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pentax don't want to be at the stadium. If they did, they'd make a 5-8 FPS > body and a lot of 1.4-2.8 (digital) lenses. They obviously don't want to. This is a great thing! There are plenty of options already from Canon and Nikon. People should use one of those if that's what they need. Why would it be a good thing to have yet another brand making cameras like that? I like my small, no frills Pentaxes that stay out of the way while I try to create art with them. [...] > Only people who bring a camera while they are really doing OTHER things care > about size and weight. Speak for yourself. If you are walking around in a city for six hours in a row shooting people in the street, camera strapped to your wrist, size and weight become a big issue. When I do that I'm not doing anything else, btw. Give me a small istD with an FA35 over a 20S with whatever lens is equivalent anytime. j (who couldn't care less about sports photography) -- Juan Buhler Water Molotov: http://photoblog.jbuhler.com Slippery Slope: http://color.jbuhler.com -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.0.0/268 - Release Date: 02/23/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.0.0/268 - Release Date: 02/23/2006
