Originally posted by Fontan You probably made K-5 a better camera than it actually was.
Fontan,
I dunno whether you're talking to me or to topic-starter. If I'm concerned then lemme break it down:
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K-5 is a great camera
- in order to grow up and become a better photographer you - particulary - need to learn how to fail and the harder you fail the better. The best scenario is to go with film since you'll be limited to 24-36 exposures and you'll get the results only after darkrooming, not right away on the backside LCD
- the more you sweat in times of peace the less you bleed in war (C) George S. Patton; with ist DS you don't have that huge FPS rate, you're limited with dynamic range (even shooting in raw), you don't have image stabilization (aka SR) and on, and on. K-5 just forgives you lot's of mistakes and it takes a photo - but such photo just doesn't look any good. And you don't know what's wrong - thus it doesn't force you go studying photo techniques.
N.B.:
ist DS taught me how to shoot hand-held: I can get an acceptable result shooting down to 1/2 sec with 28mm@APC-S (=42mm effective) with no SR or tripod. There's no way that smbd started with K-5 will get these skills - but don't get me wrong, K-5 is a very good cam to be moved to after you're 100% done with basics.
Originally posted by creampuff Are you perhaps acting like a sour grape because you can't afford to buy one?
Dude,
if I were moderator you'd get a yellow card. A
gentleman well brought up person does not talk like this.
Zig