As I've mentioned, my K-5 has been acting wonky. Unfortunately, it's been intermittently so. Last Monday it was Tango Uniform long enough that I thought it had gone from being intermittent, and hard to diagnose, to simply broken, but after a couple of hours, it woke up again.
I've tried the customer contact forms in both the pentax and the criscam websites. Thursday afternoon it crapped out on me and I tried calling cris, the receptionist was going to send me an email from her account, so I could reply with details. I never got that email. My experience with the repair department has me anticipating that if/when I send it in, I'll be without the K-5 for at least a month, if not two. For the most part, I can get by with the K-x (having now sold both my K20 and my K100) but there is the possibility that something (like a paid gig) will come up where I'd need a second camera body. As it is, I have a bunch of Nikon mount glass sitting around, gathering dust. I've considered that if I were to spend money I don't have on another body, rather than getting a second K-5, getting a D7000. Advantages of the K-5: Less initial outlay. The bodies cost about the same, but I don't have any modern (auto focus, VR etc.) glass. No cognitive dissonance shifting between user interfaces. All of my DSLRs would be able to use the same lenses. Slightly better low light performance. Advantages of the D7000: Able to use the Nikon glass that I already have like the 105/2.5, 100/2.8, and if I get it modded the 1353.5 (what does it cost to mod a pre ais lens to ais?) Able to use Nikon Speedlights Potential access to a whole new family of lenses that aren't available in Pentax mount This isn't a question of shifting brands, this is the question of whether to keep everything the same, or to buy a body that would allow use of lenses and strobes that don't work with Pentax? What would you do? Note, that what I'm really hoping for is an evil with an APS or 24x36 sensor that with an adapter would work with K-mount, Nikon or even my old Minolta glass. Let me rephrase that, I don't really care about the size of the sensor, I want an EVIL with low light performance as good as, or better than, my K-5. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
