And honestly, I'd like a 20-35 ƒ4 type lens but, my FAJ 18-35 has worked well when necessary. Maybe it's not the best lens ever but it works, and since I've never needed more than a 2650x1600 image, the K-1 gives me a 3x oversample and it's up to the job. Everyone tries to pretend things are critical. Things aren't critical. What we have from my perspective is a bunch of the immature throwing tantrums , because according to them, possible solutions "aren't good enough" for them.
In my experience there are lot of folks for whom nothing is ever good enough, and they are serious drains on the psyche. Best avoided and certainly not taken seriously.
If I took many of these posts seriously I would have dumped my Pentax gear long ago. But I continue to go out day after day and just shoot. And despite the objections of all these complainers, day after day, I come home, look at my images and they make me happy. I don't know exactly what it is these people want, but I know, it has nothing to do with my happiness. They are locked into some kind of myopic miserable mind state that has nothing to do with my reality.
Sometimes they do convince me that I should be unhappy.... then I come back to the real world. I have gear that does everything I ask it to.
Why do so many people want me to feel bad about what I own?
It wold make me really happy if they'd invest in some other brand, and go make those people feel bad about what they own. Pentax is such a small brand they shouldn't even be on the radar. They don't deserve the attention. We don't need buch of nagging nellies saying over and over "pentax isn't as big as many of the other brands and can't do what they do." Most of us accepted that long ago, and are just a happy with what they do.
Especially since I have a good kit that does what I want for prices I can afford. I don't know that could be true with any other brand. For me, I'm happy to make up for lack of cutting edge tech, too have decently priced gear. I know I have to make up for the limitations of the gear with technique. But that's exactly what I want.
My second hand Tamron 300 2.8 would cost me $9000 if were to upgrade to Sony glass and an A9. I have something. Switching to Sony, I'd have nothing. I'd barely have an A9 forget about a 300mm 2.8 lens. I'm not sure why that is so hard to comprehend. The choice is not Pentax or something else. It's Pentax or nothing. There seems to be a lot of folks here who have so much money that's not an issue for them,. They should learn some humility and stop shoving that in my face.
I have absolutely no respect for people who have so much money they can spend thousands to produce bad images and have $20,000 solutions to do what I do with $5000. To quote Shania, "that don't impress me much." And I certainly don't think they're smart.
Last edited by normhead; 12-26-2017 at 08:03 PM.