> And that, pretty much, is how I feel about FF. My photo course starts up > again on Friday (another three years to go for us part timers) and I still > don't have the unbearable itch to go FF even as my classmates look at 5D > III and D600s. There is so much that I can do that doesn't require FF that > I can wait another year or two. I waited long enough for the *ist-D, I can > do it again. It would be nice to have tethering software but that is the > only thing I couldn't do that my Nikon and Canon classmates could (I am > the only non Nikon or Canon shooter).
When I bought my K100 about five years ago, the cost of DSLRs had finally dropped below my pain threshold, and the goal was a short term investment that would last me a few years until a camera with the performance I wanted was available. I wasn't even going to buy anything beyond the kit lens, as I had gone almost 20 years with just a 58/1.4, then my 35-105 series 1 pretty much did everything I needed since then. That lasted almost a week until I tried some low light photography, and bought an FA31 the following Monday. Initially, except for the 18-250 I only bought lenses that would work on full frame. Fast forward a K20, a K-x and 3-4 years and the K-5 was released. It was the DSLR that I had been wanting ever since I first started looking at them. It has some warts, though most of them are things I could fix with access to the source code. Assuming that I'm still employed, I'll probably get a full frame body if/when the price is below $2500. There is very little that I *need* it for, but it would sure be nice to widen the field of view of my 20, 31 and 50mm fast lenses for shooting indoors at what on APS would be 14/1.8, 20/1.8 and 31/1.4. Also, my 50/2.8 macro would be a good walkabout in the forest lens, so I wouldn't need to get a 35/2.8. My bigma would go from standard to long rather than short tele to very long tele, and then be surprisingly useful as a rather large walkaround lens. So, as you can see, since I took care to buy mostly lenses that would work on full frame, buying a full frame body would be easy to justify on the basis of the money that it would save me on lenses that I would effectively get for free with it. -- [email protected] via squirrelmail -- 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.
