Funny, I was writing when your email arrived. The Sony a7r I discard, after hearing the shutter and seeing its frame to frame VF blackout. I hear the cheaper a7 might be better in those regards, and seriously, it is tempting. Wouldn't it be great to have one of those with an SMC M 50/1.4 on it? It even *looks* kind of like a black MX!
Nikon is not an option for me because then I would be all on my own regarding lenses. With Canon, I could be borrowing really great glass from family. With Nikon, no such luck. j On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 5:24 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, based on everything I've read lately, if you're not sticking with > Pentax the better choice as far as imaging would be Nikon. I haven't > compared Nikon and Canon directly for autofocus speed but others have said > that Nikon is as good as Canon at for that at least at the upper end of > their respective camera ranges. I read somewhere that Canon had managed to > capture the lions share of the SLR market without having a wide angle lens > worthy of mounting on a camera. I kind of agree. > > Now you probably want an optical viewfinder. I guess that would leave out > the new Sony 24x36mm mirrorless cameras, though they're supposed to be very, > very, good, with what might be the best or second best EVF available, but in > that case, if you can get repetitively clean 16-24mp images from 4:3 or > APS-C mirrorless cameras there seems to be less need for full frame, the > viewfinder isn't quite so constrained by the laws of physics. The real > advantage I suppose of the new Sonys is that with the short lens > registration distance adapters for lots of legacy lenses will be available, > which would make my lovely wide angle K mount lenses wide angle again, and > maybe easier to shoot. > > So that's where I think I'd go, either to Nikon, they have the best output > for imaging right now, or take a good hard look at the Sony a7/a7R but that > would probably be in addition to keeping a Pentax body. > > This is beside the point, but I've handled Nikon and Canon bodies and I can > safely say I don't hate Nikon ergonomics, I can't say the same for most > Canon and some Sony products. > > > > > > On 12/28/2013 11:48 AM, Juan Buhler wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> I don't post here much anymore, but I decided to ask this because I >> see a lot of the old names and the pdml has always been an awesome >> group of people. >> >> As some of you might know, I've shot with Pentax all my photographic >> life. Starting with an ME-Super, going through PZ-1, MX (I still have >> two black ones!), ZX-n, istD, K10D, to my current ones, a K5 and a >> K-01 I bought because it was a really cheap way to put a sensor behind >> my lenses. >> >> I love the quality and ergonomics of my Pentax cameras. After all >> these years, I obviously have a nice set of lenses. I am currently >> traveling in South America long term, so I have a subset of those with >> me: 12-24 zoom, 21 Limited, FA28/2.8, FA35/2, FA50/1.7, 17-70 zoom. >> The first three are my most used ones right now. I also shoot a lot >> with a Leica M8 and either a 28 or 35mm lens on it. >> >> Now the time has came to renew my DSLR. Obviously, an option that is >> up there is a K3. It seems like a camera I'd love, and given that it's >> a Pentax, I can just use it without waiting for my fingers to learn >> where the controls are. >> >> BUT. I've missed having full frame all this time. I would love to go >> back to shooting mostly with a 50mm, because of its shallow depth of >> field. I would love to have a big viewfinder, and fast AF wouldn't >> hurt. Every time I pick up a Canon, it makes me sad how fast the AF >> is. Even way older models, like an original 5D, focuses way faster >> with a 50/1.8 than my K5 with a 50/1.7 or 35/2. >> >> So I am now trying to make this decision: get a K3, along with a 20-40 >> (that zoom looks great for photos in the street!), or get a 60D ($1300 >> at KEH), with a 50/1.8 and possibly a 28/1.8? If I get a Canon, I have >> lenses available through my girlfriend: a 17-40/4 and a 24-105/4, so I >> would immediately have a complete kit. >> >> The money spent would be about the same. One option means staying with >> a brand I know and love. The other means getting full frame and state >> of the art AF, no more little screws on my lenses. >> >> I feel like if I get the 60D I will miss Pentax tremendously. And if I >> get the K3 I will love it, and in three months I will be wishing for a >> full frame K mount. >> >> What says the PDML? It seems like the only good thing about Pentax not >> releasing a FF camera is that Cotty's hat is still intact, no? >> >> j >> > > > -- > A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the > crazy, crazier. > > - H.L.Mencken > > > > -- > 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. -- Juan Buhler - http://www.jbuhler.com -- 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.
