On Nov 1, 2012, at 11:25 AM, John Sessoms wrote:
>> What, specifically, are you looking for in a DSLR? Other than that >> it costs less than $800? In bright light it's pretty hard to see any >> effective difference in image quality of just about any DSLR this >> side of the K100. > > What I want is to buy a camera (if/when one ever comes along) that > offers me sufficient improvement over what I have now to be worth the > price - whatever that price might be. I hope that camera will be offered > by Pentax. > > K-5 ain't it. I am rather puzzled by this. I can't think of a single category in which the K-5 isn't overall a huge improvement over the K20, unless you happen to prefer the way the larger K20 fits in your hand. What improvements are you looking for? How much are you willing to pay? I just find it hard to believe that anyone who has used both a K-5 and a K20 doesn't think that it's a huge improvement. Though seriously, if your primary concern is amount of improvement for your dollar, pick up a used K-r. The only major advantages that the K20 has over it are weather sealing and user interface features (two dial wheels etc.), in just about every aspect of performance, the K-r vastly outperforms the K20. The K-x does as well, but the K-r has better performance, better features and can be picked up almost as cheaply. If you aren't in the market for a camera, there is no crime in that. I was responding to someone's message (at this point I don't remember who, my reply in this thread was to Colin) who had the tone that they wanted a new camera, but that the K-5 isn't good enough, when to my mind, the K-5 is the first DSLR Pentax has made that has been "good enough", that although I want improvements, I don't feel the *need* for better performance. -- 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.
