On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Aahz Maruch <a...@pobox.com> wrote: > 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.
5-10 years out you could be bored with photography, blind or dead. Buy glass now while you can still enjoy it. :-) -- -bmw -- 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.
