Juan - just buy the K-3 - clearly your pro-con list is leaning that way
:-) gotta keep having your photos in the PDML Annual.. ann - (who diverted to the dark-side briefly and came back to the fold.) On 12/28/2013 11:48, Juan Buhler wrote:
Hello all, I don't post here much anymore, but I decided to ask this because I see a lot of the old names and the pdml has always been an awesome group of people. As some of you might know, I've shot with Pentax all my photographic life. Starting with an ME-Super, going through PZ-1, MX (I still have two black ones!), ZX-n, istD, K10D, to my current ones, a K5 and a K-01 I bought because it was a really cheap way to put a sensor behind my lenses. I love the quality and ergonomics of my Pentax cameras. After all these years, I obviously have a nice set of lenses. I am currently traveling in South America long term, so I have a subset of those with me: 12-24 zoom, 21 Limited, FA28/2.8, FA35/2, FA50/1.7, 17-70 zoom. The first three are my most used ones right now. I also shoot a lot with a Leica M8 and either a 28 or 35mm lens on it. Now the time has came to renew my DSLR. Obviously, an option that is up there is a K3. It seems like a camera I'd love, and given that it's a Pentax, I can just use it without waiting for my fingers to learn where the controls are. BUT. I've missed having full frame all this time. I would love to go back to shooting mostly with a 50mm, because of its shallow depth of field. I would love to have a big viewfinder, and fast AF wouldn't hurt. Every time I pick up a Canon, it makes me sad how fast the AF is. Even way older models, like an original 5D, focuses way faster with a 50/1.8 than my K5 with a 50/1.7 or 35/2. So I am now trying to make this decision: get a K3, along with a 20-40 (that zoom looks great for photos in the street!), or get a 60D ($1300 at KEH), with a 50/1.8 and possibly a 28/1.8? If I get a Canon, I have lenses available through my girlfriend: a 17-40/4 and a 24-105/4, so I would immediately have a complete kit. The money spent would be about the same. One option means staying with a brand I know and love. The other means getting full frame and state of the art AF, no more little screws on my lenses. I feel like if I get the 60D I will miss Pentax tremendously. And if I get the K3 I will love it, and in three months I will be wishing for a full frame K mount. What says the PDML? It seems like the only good thing about Pentax not releasing a FF camera is that Cotty's hat is still intact, no? j
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