My first SLR was an MX with an M50 f1.7 lens bought new in 1981 (before I know about second hand gear). I still own them.
Since then I have been slowly buying new gear, upgrading and building up to my current kit. Every lens is Pentax (with the exception of 3 Olympus macro lenses I use on a set of bellows), flashes are Pentax. Yes there are idiosyncrasies to the gear, but we get to know each other and generally work well together. I've always liked the feel of the Pentax cameras and every Canon I've picked up feels horrid (to me at least). My slow approach to upgrading means that I could probably have changed brands completely over any given 4 year period over the past 29 years. Given the lenses I now own and the fact I have no desire to be parted from any of them (I only want the weather resistant 100 macro that will soon be released (Is there another brand with weather resistant lenses?)), I'm probably with Pentax for another 10 years at least. If there were no more Pentax and technology moved on to the point I felt I needed new gear I would look at Nikon and possibly Sony, but Pentax is not so far behind or so unreliable that I have any desire to change now. Leon MX, Super A, Z1p, MZ-S, *ist D and some modern stuff. 2010/1/16 Igor Roshchin <[email protected]>: > > In view of various comments from people about K-7 and K-x, I've been > thinking, - why am I shooting with Pentax? > This is a summary of my thoughts - I'd like to hear what others think > about this. -- 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.
