On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > On Dec 26, 2011, at 9:30 AM, David J Brooks wrote: > >> Happy day after all. Hope your are able to do up your belts by now,.:-) >> >> Just looking at Henrys big, all week long, boxing day sale. Pentax K-5 >> body now on for $969 Canadian. >> Nikon D700 still at $2499. >> >> Arr. >> >> I did manage to get a few coins for Christmas, and the K-5 is >> affordable for me know, but the D700 is still to much. Get and sneak >> the K-5 in to the house or stand firm on the D700 to come down one >> day. >> >> Going to find a loonie to flip. Heads i get the K-5 tails i wait. >> Wonder how many times I'm going to flip this coin.:-) > > I'm not sure that the D700 has that much better performance than the D7000, > unless you need wider angle.
Maybe Mr Savage could comment on this.?? Dave > > The difference between the D700 and the K-5 is even less. The Nikon pro > bodies have an annoying ability to retain high prices, even on the used > market. Even so, if I were shopping for a D700, I'd probably wait a month or > two until there's a rush of people upgrading to the D800. > > Even so, I'd probably go for the D800 if I could > >> >> Dave >> >> >> >> -- >> Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. >> www.caughtinmotion.com >> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >> York Region, Ontario, Canada >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.