Hi. My name is Stan, and I have way too much Pentax gear. Thank you for allowing me to join you at this evening’s meeting of those suffering from Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
But seriously… Within a few months I hope to get back to my occasional travels to foreign/scenic/exotic places. And I have been giving a lot of thought as to what gear to take and how to use it. One K-1ii or both of them. 645Z? But that probably means the tripod as well. I hate not having a back-up camera… And the APS-C format is nice for bird shots. All of this musing led me to purchase a K-3iii. After a few months, about 1000 images, I sold it. This may not be relevant for others, but my issue was with the menu structure and the heavy use of touch-screen in lieu of hierarchical lists under the Menu button. I’ll confess that I probably just did not give it enough serious study, and I coulda shoulda set up a few User settings so that I wouldn’t need to worry about the menu details. But I sold it, bought a used K-3ii for about 25% the price of the K-3iii. If I were to switch to a different brand Olympus would be high on my list just because long long ago, before my ME-Super, I had the OM-1 and was very pleased with everything about it except the match-needle exposure was off and my brother convinced me to try the Pentax. I would also consider some version of Nikon just because the last time I looked the menus/buttons etc. were similar to Pentax. But I cannot imagine that any brand camera at this point would be a bad choice, in terms of quality. For me, as with the K-3iii the choice would come down to usability. stan > On Nov 17, 2021, at 4:37 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The recent posts about the K3-III got me to wondering again about whether > I'll stick with Pentax and get a K3-III, or switch brands. > > I know a few of the posters here have already moved over - I'd appreciate it > if you could share with me (either here on PDML or by direct email) your > experiences - positive or negative - with any particular Olympus model (I'm > thinking of an OM-D of some kind). > And if there are any other people here who are considering switching (or have > considered it in the past) I'd like to hear your thoughts, too. > > The main reason I'm considering the switch is because I'm not getting any > younger, and it's getting increasingly more tiring to lug around a camera bag > full of gear. Switching to a smaller format should go some way to reducing > the weight. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
