OK - I'll play. Currently I use our little 4/3 Olympus E-PL1 about as much as I use the K-5. But that's not very much - I've hardly picked up a camera for over a year now.
I'm tempted by the K-3 and the 150-450 zoom, but I'm unlikely to buy anything unless I get back into the habit of taking photographs, and even then I suspect I'm more likely to buy an OM-D (probably the M1) and a decent lens to use with it. I'll hold on to the K-5; I've got a whole lot of lenses I'm not going to replace with another brand (including the DA* zooms and the 250-600). I've been with Pentax since 1972 (my first paycheck from a full-time job went on a Spotmatic II with the 50mm/f1.4), and the K-mount since buying an MX in 1976. Over the years I've bought an ME, an ME Super, a Super Program, a PZ-1p and an MZ-S. The MX has been with me as a backup body much of the time until the MZ-S arrived. Then in 2003 I bought a *ist-D, and I've shot maybe three rolls of film since then. I picked up a K-10D when they came along, and most recently a K-5. Prior to Pentax I started in photography with a Brownie 127 when I was around 7 or 8. My first 35mm camera was a Halina Paulette Electric. I don't remember exactly how I lucked into that - I believe it came from a school classmate at an end-of-term bring-and-buy sale. It must have been almost new when I got it, and it was a pretty nice camera for the time (1967) - a built-in (uncoupled) exposure meter, a 45mm/f2.8 lens, and a shutter that had speeds from 1/30 to 1/250. -- 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.
