On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 05:32:35PM +0200, Jens wrote: > Hello list That's like asking "what brand of car would you buy?". Every brand has different models that do different things well. Also some brands have strengths in some areas that are more useful to some people than others.
> > When I wanted somthing better than my first slr - the Yashica TL Electro-X, I > went to a shop the buy an Olympus OM-1. But the guy in the shop convinced my > to buy a Pentax MX (which I did), since I remembered, that I had earlier used > a Pentax lens for my Yashica. The results from this lens (a 35mm for > Spotmatic) came out so nice, that the guy in the shop really had no > difficulties in convincing me to buy the MX (still got one). > This happened in 1981. I have been using Pentax cameras ever since. About six years ago I went into San Jose Camera, pretty much set on the Nikon D40. The guy behind the counter was telling me that Canon service was better, but I hated the feel of the low end Canon. While I was mulling that over, he was talking to someone else about Pentax and his K100. I did some research and concluded that the K100 got me a lot mroe for my money than the D40, especially since the D40 wouldn't work well with my manual Nikon glass. My goal was for the body and a couple of lenses to last me a few years, at which point the camera with the performance I wanted would be available at a price I'd be willing to pay, and I'd reevaluate which system I'd use at that point. It turns out that the camera I was waiting for was the K-5. > > But if this happended today, I don't know what would happen. > The guy in the shop would probably tell me to get a Canon, Nikon or Sony, > like almost everybody else... > > How would you convince a beginner to get a Pentax? Show them my work. I've had several people ask me about cameras. My advice is to buy the cheapest used DSLR that they can find, shoot with it for at least a few months, don't spend a lot on lenses, and find out what they like to do and what limitations they run into with the camera. At that point they can make a better judgement on what to buy. I've had several friends buy Pentax, based in part on the work that they saw me doing. The Pentax sensor and in body image stabilization is hard to beat for hand held low light work, throw in good weather sealing and a low price, and it's very attractive for certain types of photography. > > What would you buy, if you were a beginner? > > Regards > Jens > > Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. > > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
