Originally Posted by bigben91682
That's great. I think a lot of people write off pentax without a second glance, once they get their hands on it, it's a whole different story.
Good story though, thanks for sharing.
once upon a time, I used olympus and nothing but olympus... I started on film cameras, om1 is still very special to me, then e1, e500, e510... and I had a chance to feel a bit of k10d when it first came to market. It felt all wrong to me, wrong zooming direction, wierd button placement, poor ergonomics (compared to e510), and it had quite few bugs to fix. It turned out to be pre-production model, so pentax fixed most of the issues before it really hit the market, but... it still felt wrong.
a year later, I had a chance to check out k10d with battery grip, fancy viewfinder magnifier and 50-135, plus some other lenses like 35 f/2,0 and 50 f/1,4... and it was - wow, this is it! week later I bought pretty much the same setup, plus couple of film stuff like pentax me and mx.
So I sold all of my oly stuff, and although pentax still feels wierd while zooming, still has 4x more complicated custom white balance, this is IT for me... I did own canon dSLR, I did try nikon, sony and canon again, but I'll stay with pentax for a long time, no question about it... 50-135 still makes me smile every time I look at shots made with it, and I still have that sweet grin on my face every time I'm taking snaps in rain, while everyone else is covering their cameras
actually, there is only one camera+lens combination I'd switch to, and that's E3+12-60 (I guess there's still plenty of oly-fan in me
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I read somewhere that pentax is like subaru... best there is, but for those who know it
well, no point in going on about it anymore, you know what I mean