Like she said. I have a mirrorless camera - the PEN EP-L2. Like most compact cameras, it is designed to be held at arms length in front of you while you try to obtain sharp focus on an LCD screen made unreadable by glare. And/or by presbyopia. It has a clunky add-on EVF which works reasonable well, but it is clearly an add-on to a camera designed for the compact-camera crowd. I hope Pentax does not repeat that mistake, but I am very much expecting that they will.
If the new line-up is: a. the new little toy camera with interchangeable lenses; b. the rumored APS-C mirrorless camera; and c. the K-5 or follow-on quality DSLR, then I think life is good. If they drop the K-5 with no replacement, then Nikon wouldn't be too bad an alternative. At this point I've had my time to play with lots of different lenses, I would not need a huge assortment of Nikon lenses to keep me satisfied. Two or three fast zooms . . . stan On Jan 20, 2012, at 5:00 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: > I guess I agree with Paul, but I have to say it would break my heart to see > the K5 to go away with no upgrade to follow. I'd probably use my Pentax gear > until I couldn't any more, then switch. Cheers, Christine > > > > On Jan 20, 2012, at 12:59 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> >> On Jan 20, 2012, at 1:57 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >> >>> Tom C wrote: >>> >>>> Assuming I had a K-5, what would induce me to buy a mirrorless system >>>> that is essentially in all other respects, a K-5? >>> >>> The K5 being discontinued? >> >> If no DSLR upgrade were introduced, that would induce me to sell my gear and >> go to Nikon. >> >> Paul >>> >>> -- >>> Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia >>> www.robertstech.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
