frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 5/2/05, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ><snip> > >> I view Pentax as the Hyundai of the camera market. Nikon and Canon are the >> Toyotas and Hondas. > ><snip> > >But Hyundai sells cars by offering comparable cars to Toyota and Honda >for considerably less money...
In the last JD Powers survey, Hyundai *beat* Toyota. ;-) Seriously, though: A few months ago I did some serious consideration of the kind of photography I do and what kind of equipment best suits me and I was actually slightly surprised to realise that Pentax literally meets my needs better than any other make. Nothing else in the "thousand dollars os so" category is built nearly as well as the ist-D. I simply won't put up with a crappy pentamirror viewfinder. The image quality of the 6 megapixel (and 8 megapixel) DSLR's is equal for all practical purposes if you're shooting RAW (and if you care about image quality you *are* shooting RAW). The only camera I'd consider as an alternative would be the Canon 1D-II. Even at four thousand dollars I *would* consider it if it weren't the size and weight of a small compact car (a Hyundai, for example <g>). Nope, for hiking the ridge of Grandfather Mountain and similar places, with backpack, tent, sleeping bag, food and water along with my camera gear, there literally isn't anything that competes with an ist-D and a couple of Limited lenses. BTW: I just got a 31/1.8 Ltd! :-P -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
