On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 08:30:45PM -0400, P.J. Alling wrote: > We're up to three. But the differences between the K-30, K-50 and > K-500 once you look past the body shell are subtle to say the least. > I guess Pentax is actually making money on the Q system.
I'm not entirely sure what was the point going from the K30 to the K50. It does look like the K500 might be shaped the same as the K50. Looking at the specs it says metering M&K lenses are Av only, and only wide open. I wonder what happened to the green button in manual mode. > > Any guesses at what comes next? 645D K-3 Full frame? or APS-C 24mp. I'm hoping for the K-3. It would effectively nearly double the number of lenses I have, by giving a lot of them wider fields of view. I've been holding off pulling the trigger on getting a K-5 II until I know what is coming at the top of the line. If my K-5 needs an expensive repair, it may not be worth it on a body with 85,000 frames on it. CRIS seems to think that I might just have something stuck to the magnets, and that would be fairly inexpensive to fix. Meanshile, I'm keeping my eyes open for amazing deals on a K-5 II. The best price on Amazon is from a place called davismax, at $788. There don't seem to be a lot of screaming warnings about them either. I'm also willing to consider a used K-5 or even a K-7 if it was cheap enough. I suppose that I should just send mine in and use the K-x until I get word on the damage. > > I'm not going to say I'm underwhelmed. Pentax needed to > differentiate an actual entry level camera and the K-500 really > looks like it's an incredible bargain compared to the it's > competition, but while I don't think I need a 24mp DSLR, if everyone > else has one Pentax needs to have one too. What Pentax needs most of all is for people to be able to actually buy one, in a store. > > -- > There are two kinds of computer users those who've experienced a hard drive > failure, and those that will. > > > -- > 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 http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
