Larry, very well spoken (wait typed), Joe
On 4/19/2012 1:11 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
Tom,
I have to say that I'm beginning to feel like you.
I've faithfully upgraded my way thru Pentax cameras to the K-5. (DS,
K-10, K-20, K-7, K-5)
Now I'm beginning to wonder where/when I'll be able to buy long& fast
AF glass for Pentax.
The only option is to go Canon/Nikon.
So I am beginning to lose the faith...
Regards, Bob S.
You are right, Pentax is not always the right tool for the job.
But, sometimes it is. It would be nice if I could get a camera the
size, quietness and price of the K-5, the low light sensitivity of
the D3, the resolution of the D800, the fast long lenses of Canon,
the view finder of the 645D and so forth. The problem is, you can't
have everything. Good, fast, cheap, pick any two.
If you want high magnification, and a fast aperture, you'll want to
shoot with an APS sensor. Full frame means that for the same
magnification and speed the lens needs to be 1.5 times as long, a
bit over times the cross sectional area, and about 3.3 times the
volume (weight), and probably closer to four or five times the cost.
If you need a long fast lens, and Pentax doesn't make one, buy a
D7000 to leave it mounted on. It'll add $1,000 to the cost of a
$5,000 lens, but it's a lot cheaper than switching systems.
A buddy of mine from the dojo has a D700, when we're both
photographing belt tests, where we want to be unobtrusive, the
difference in noise between the D700 and the K-5 is amazing.
I was photographing at a blues dance a while back, hand held, mostly
with the FA31. Someone else there had what looked like a 5DII, he
needed to use a flash. Granted, he might have gotten away with a
50/1.4 and a monopod, but for hand held low light shooting, I'll
even save $400 off my combination and put a K-5 with a Sigma 30/1.4
up against anything on the market that you can get for under $4,000
(though I suspect that you'd need $6,000 to beat it).
Let's say that Ned is right, in order to get Pentax into more
stores, they have to be more aggressive about enforcing pricing.
One thing that they can't do, while their existing customers have a
bunch of stock on the shelves is drop MSRP too much. It's possible
that they might be able to tell their customers that they are
dropping MSRP, or maybe even wholesale cost in the future, so that
the customers don't have a lot of inventory on their shelves that
they will be forced to sell at a loss. But, if they do, they can't
make an announcement until the customers have had a chance to sell
off some of their back stock.
I'm bummed, there are a few lenses very high on my wish list, that
if I had a little more money or even less financial sense, I'd
already own. I've been watching the prices on those lenses go up to
the point where the 35-135 probably costs what it and the DA35 macro
together would have cost me a couple years ago. Oh well, sucks to
be me.
In the mean time I still have a kit that'll go out and kick butt on
kits that cost several times what I've got invested in mine. Hell,
look at what Walt is getting with his collection of obsolete bodies
and lenses that are old enough to vote.
In short, are you going to bitch about the prices of gear that you
don't have? Or go out and take pictures with the gear that you do?
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