Cotty wrote: >Horses for courses. If you want to shoot amazing wildlife like that or >capture perfect sports stills, Canon or Nikon would be a good choice for >the technology. For most other aspects of non-professional (and even >sometimes paid) photography, Pentax and Olympus et al would be a better >choice - and as we all know, life is *all* about choices.
Quite right. Personally, AF speed isn't even on my radar as a significant factor, but that's simply due to the kind of shooting I do. I've been seriously considering a high-megapixel full-frame camera for a while now, but after studying all the manufacturers' products I've come to the conclusion that no one offers quite what I want at the moment. Sony comes closest (and the Zeiss lenses are very tempting), but is still kind of "not quite" over all. >From talking to John Carlson at the K-X press intro a few months ago, I'm pretty sure Pentax is working on an A850/5D/D700 competitor: I got the impression that every other question people asked him included the words "full frame" and/or "Sony A850". He wouldn't say anything directly about it but he admitted that the game had changed in the past year. I hope for FF news from Pentax by the end of this year, but if it doesn't happen then a Sony A850 (Mike Johnston's pick for Camera of the Year) and a couple of good primes are in my future. BTW: John Carlson told me he probably won't be able to make it to GFM this year, as he's trying to cut down on the amount of time he spends on the road. Probably just as well - by the middle of the year I expect the *only* questions he'll be fielding will include the words "full frame". -- 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.
