Originally posted by awo425 Correct me if I am wrong, but 99% of Pentax funboys who are in love with cropped APS-C sized sensors are explaining advantages of this format with chipper/smaller/better lenses. Is this DA*55/1.4 nonsense along with new Sigma 55mml are one of those chipper/smaller/better ones?
If it is, then I am off to Canon FF.
No, you are not wrong.
A lot of pentax users like certain len rendering characteristics. These features may not be what some of consumers are after. So it is not one brand better than the other. It is about your own preference.
Very often, people buy the "best" recommended lenses while having an extremely high standards from this equipment. Dissapointment and anger were usually the result and lashing out anger here.
IMHO, buying lenses is like burning your cash away. If it provides some sort of entertainment, this is a bonus. If it is not a lens for you, do a bit of lens testing and exploration about the lens so you get to know the lens before you try to sell it hopefully with a small loss of value.
This whole process provides insight into the gear and the hobby as a whole. I have plenty of friends that love to measurebate and I appreciate that. There has to be some people doing the dirty work. I do the pixel peeping business and some personal unscientific testing on some of the lens characteristics that I value. This is a hobby.
FF is perfectly fine to go to but no need to share with us. I have tried out 2 FF cameras with canon and I think its advantages is rather limited to certain shooting situation like better narrow depth of field and more dynamic range with FF sensor. Funnily, all the canon FF guys called bokeh as unsharp elements or out of focus areas that either the camera or the lenses must be crap. Most of the FF users carry on that 24-105L as the "kit" lens and I hardly see great work from this type of people.
The great work is usually done by people who own a canon 300d or 350d with a kit lens. So go figure.
My brother's girlfriend wants to have a camera. She wants a Nikon D3 or Canon 5d MKII and she never did photography before. Not even with a point and shoot. So she sticks to the buzz word - Canon or Nikon are the pro brands and sticking to it. Money is no object and I think there will be disaster after she acquires one of these cameras as they do not produce top quality images for her!
Da* 55mm f1.4 is certainly dear and still I would love to know certain rendering characteristics before leaping onto its purchase.
Or I could recommence my LBA again...