On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:36:17 -0500 (EST) Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> wrote:
> In view of various comments from people about K-7 and K-x, I've been > thinking, - why am I shooting with Pentax? > I would be glad to hear what others have to say about these thoughts. when i had made the decision to buy a dslr in 2006, it was a fairly big monetary investment at that time. so did a lot of reading (?) before making a decision and what convinced me to go for the *ist DS was pentax's backwards compatibility with old manual lenses (which were available in reasonable numbers; pentax was a fairly popular brand during the film days here). with a little nudge from cotty too.. :) of course it is a different matter that i went on to buy FA and DA lenses new later on... in fact, i got myself a k50/1.2 (which i still have) and an m28/2.8 months before i got myself the *ist DS. and a query about whether the k50/1.2 was worth buying at about US$100 then was what brought me to the PDML, circa september 2006 :) regards, subash -- 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.
