I had, and still have, an impressive collection of FA, FA* & Limiteds. I didn't jump ship to join the FF bandwagon. I jumped ship because Pentax's cameras couldn't do what I needed (I had a K20D at the time).
Around the time of the D700's release I had been shooting a lot of long exposure night sky scenes...and then spending several hours in Photoshop cleaning up the sensor heat bloom that stained all my shots. The D300/D300s had the same issue, the equivalent APS Canon at that time had similar problems. When the D700 came out I went to the official product launch here. I was suitably impressed. The metering, AF, flash & high ISO all just worked in a way that Pentax never seemed to be able to match. Also the sensor didn't turn magenta at exposures longer than 5 minutes. My going full frame was a by-product of getting a camera that enabled me to shoot what I wanted without having to clean up the mess the camera made in post. I see a lot of people buying FF cameras simply because the sensor is bigger. They still shoot the same crap they always did & don't really get the full benefits of what the larger sensor can offer. DS On 07/02/2013, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:11 PM, David Savage <ozsav...@gmail.com> wrote: >> When I migrated to Nikon I bought their best lenses (the holy trinity >> 14-24, 24-70, 70-200, plus their 50 f1.4 & 85 f1.4). > > Earlier upthread I said: > "Realistically, you probably need to commit to spending nearly 10K to > get a decent compliment of lenses for the D800 and the computer > upgrade you will have to have, as > well." > > David's 5 lenses total about $7800 (B&H prices) so it looks like my > ballpark estimate (including computer/storage upgrades) was pretty > close. With the D800/E body at $3K you are looking at $11K outlay. > > Now assuming you are a Pentaxian with a complement of full frame > lenses already at your disposal, I would say that a Pentax full frame > body that comes in with a $2500-3000 price tag would be a relative > bargain, compared to dumping everything and going Nikon to get your > full frame fix. In fact, you'd have a relative savings of $7800+ to > rationalize buying a few of the FA Limiteds that you don't already > have. > > All of this is assuming that the Pentax full frame will perform > comparably to the Nikons, which remains to be seen. But for that much > money, I can afford to be quite content for QUITE a while. > > -- > 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.
