On Sat, Jul 06, 2013, J.C. O'Connell wrote: > On 7/6/2013 2:19 AM, Aahz Maruch wrote: >>On Sat, Jul 06, 2013, Bipin Gupta wrote: >>> >>>What Aahz, whats this "would need to get a K-5 first... ;-)" ?? With >>>prices hitting the bottom most at around $ 600 please grab one. >>>You wont regret it. Even the K-5 II is hardly $ 70 more than the K-5. >> >>The problem isn't the body, it's the glass. I don't own any Pentax >>equipment currently (I rented for my cruise), and I haven't decided yet >>what kind of equipment I want to get medium-term. > > If I was starting from scratch, I would go with NIkon, better range of > dslrs and you can use newer af glass, as well as vintage mf glass. > No FF with Pentax, no vintage mf glass with Canon.
Nikon weather-resistant lenses are more spendy than Pentax, I don't care about FF, I like in-camera shake reduction for prime lenses, and I have a soft spot for Pentax because I grew up with it. Basically, my choices boil down to Pentax, m4/3, or high-end P&S with occasional equipment rental when I need the best (the last is what I'm currently doing). As I mentioned in another post recently, my impression is that long-term (more than 5-10 years out), *all* the camera makers are poor bets due to likely technological disruption, which makes me leery of investing in glass. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html -- 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.
