A counter-point to Larry's suggestion: camera bodies come and go, but
good glass is forever. That truism varies in validity of course
(thinking of the random SDM death-spiral here), but it's mostly true. I
bought my first two decent lenses for my K100D Super rather than
upgrading to a K10D or other. A year or two later I added a K20D and
those lenses are workhorses on it. I expect they'll still be going
strong when the K100D is landfill and the K20D is gathering dust.
So, I'd recommend solving the lens problem. And for your work (lots of
portrait stuff, no?) OOF rendering is more important than you might
think. I think it's a hallmark of the best portrait glass in fact. BTW,
the 35mm 2.8 Ltd has pretty good bokeh, but personally I find it's
*too* sharp for portraiture. A little softness of the right kind is
preferable.
I dunno about your DA* 16-50 issues though. You might want to give the
calibration a go, under your expected lighting conditions. I've had no
trouble with focus in florescent and tungsten light with that lens, and
I've done some studio stuff with it. It has really nice bokeh and
renders pretty nice portraits. (Though I'd rather be shooting portraits
with the DA* 55 1.4 and the 50-135 2.8, myself.)
-bmw
On 11-03-20 9:24 AM, Tim Øsleby wrote:
My significant other would kill me for getting a K-5 now. But I could
smuggle in a lens.
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MaritimTim
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2011/3/20 Larry Colen<[email protected]>:
On Mar 20, 2011, at 6:06 AM, Tim Øsleby wrote:
Already got a magnifier. And I'm not a fan of split prism. Besides
that I probably will retire the K-20, so spending more money at it
seems a bit like waste.
Tim, if you are eventually going to upgrade to a K-5, and you can afford to do
it now, then the money you save by waiting for the price to drop will not be
worth the frustration you'll pay by using the K-20 rather than the K-5 in the
meantime. I don't know how much of the K-5 was produced in the area affected
by the recent events, but the Japanese economy has taken enough of a hit, that
I don't see supply of DSLRs outstripping demand in the near future, and the
price is very likely to take a temporary upturn.
Alternatively, you could get most of the performance by buying a K-r, but then
you'll likely find yourself needing to carry both bodies, one for when you need
performance, the other for when you need features.
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