Frankly, if he's unhappy with the current high-end Oly's he's not going to be happy with Pentax unless his complaint is the lack of primes. The K-7 finder is comparable in size, brightness and ease of focus to the E-3 and Pentax's zooms are at best comparable in quality to the HG series from Oly. If he's got anything less than an E-3, he needs to look at the E-3 first.
He should look at a Sony A850 if he wants a truly great manual focus experience. There's nothing in shouting distance for the money except the G1/GH1 with their EVF. The A850's viewfinder is sex in a pentaprism. The A900's even better. Especially with an M screen installed (Sony offers a truly MF-optimized focusing screen in the M type screens, It's at least as good as anything I've seen in a manual focus body). -Adam On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Derby Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > > Have a fellow colleague at work who is fed up with Olympus. He's had a > sentimental attachment to OMs (and their Zuiko primes) from way back when. > So he bought into the E series when he decided to go digital. But it's not > doing it for him. Manual focus shortcomings mostly, and I sympathise. So now > he is seriously considering the K-7. Fair enough, but he asked me a hard > question. Given one AF lens, which would I choose? Without thinking I said > the 77mm. But he's a bushwalker, and would probably would prefer something > wider. > > So, tomorrow, I'm going to let him play with > > * 31mm ltd > * 35mm DA mac > * 21mm DA > * 14mm DA > > but for good measure, even though they are longish > > * 77mm ltd > * 43mm ltd > * 40mm DA > * 70mm DA > > This should be interesting to see what he thinks. > > -- > > [email protected] > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
