On 4/28/2010 7:02 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
I think that it's a sign of maturity in the digital camera world that a
body is proving to have a fairly long potential life. It has (a)
sufficient resolution for all my expected uses (b) excellent IQ (c) a
great lens ecosystem (for my uses).
Interesting observation.
I have two competing forces when it comes to buying photo gear.
"What photos will this equipment allow me to get that I couldn't get
without it?" and "Oooh, shiny!". When I bought my K20, I had been
running up against a lot of the limitations of the K100. There are a lot
of photos where the K100 does just as good of a job as the K20, but
there are also a lot of cases in challenging conditions where the K20
gets a lot of shots that the K100 would miss. Likewise I was able to
justify the K-x because there are some situations where it outperforms
the K20, and in almost every situation where it'll outperform the K-x as
a second body. In low light, it'll make every one of my lenses a couple
of stops faster without any loss of depth of field, for about the price
of a decent lens.
I'd love to have a K-7, and there are times that it would allow me to
get shots that I would otherwise miss because the K20 takes a few more
seconds to set up the exposure, or the K-x takes a second or two longer
to focus. But, by and large, my interest in a K-7 is motivated more by
shiny than by need.
In a slightly different vein, a D700 would get me a lot more shots that
I'd miss otherwise, but at a much larger buy-in cost. I hope that in a
year or two, I'll be able to get that level of performance for about
what I paid for my K20. If I can get it from Pentax, then I won't need
(or have an excuse) to buy more lenses to go with it.
Now I'm just going to continue carrying it around and become more
familiar with it so I can be a more intuitive photographer.
I really wish that the documentation was a lot clearer on what the
camera actually does, rather than what the effect is supposed to be. For
example, on my K-x, what is different about setting the ISO to 100
rather than 200, or 12,800 vs 6,400. Or for that matter, the difference
between 200 and 400.
But hoping for that is even more futile than asking for manual control
over the on-camera flash. Every camera manufacturer is convinced that
the only people who buy cameras are mouth breathing knuckle-draggers
still upset that grampa gave up brachiating, who can barely handle the
point, click and drool technique of photography.
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