Peter Fairweather wrote: > Mark > > The answer to your question is the lenses.
I agree with you on the lenses, more or less. Thanks for the interesting feedback about your Canon lens experience. Pentax lenses are a bit of a mixed bag - they once had a really complete line up of high end to everyday lenses, but there's been no real updating to the high end models (like HSM for big telephotos (600 f4, 400 f2.8)). Now the line up is a bit spotty. The backwards compatibility that Pentax has stuck with is a major plus - but a lot of older lenses have issues with chromatic aberration on digital bodies. Pentax body's a well designed and feature rich, IMO, especially when compared to similar price points for the other brands. For me, the combination of backwards compatibility, a recently full line up of lenses (fortunately all available when I was building my collection) and premium / specialty lenses like the Limited Series distinguish Pentax from the crowd. The medium format offerings also distinguish Pentax from Canon, Nikon, and Minolta. - MCC -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
