Originally posted by conbio I appreciate your feedback on this strategy:
I do mostly nature and wildlife photography. The cropped sensor has some advantages and I have the 60-250, 21, and a few other DA lenses.
- I do think the K3 is a worthwhile upgrade from my K5ii.
- I don't feel the need the new features on the K3ii (e.g. GPS, wifi)
- I was thinking of getting a K3 (~$650)
ALTERNATIVE
- sit tight and wait for the Pentax FF, use it with my DA lenses, eventually get new lenses.
- do not buy another cropped sensor body.
- I would use the FF for macro and wide angle.
Would you wait or get the K3 now?
Thanks for your thoughts.
It depends (I hate that answer lol).
Are you going to eventually want/need a full frame camera? Me personally, I had full frame, didn't like it as much as APS-C due to it's size and I liked the 1.5X crop factor for the longer end (300mm lenses tend to be lot cheaper than 450mm lenses), so I decided to switch back to APS-C.
SO for me, it didn't make sense to wait for the Pentax FF, so I got the best all around APS-C out there, the K-3II (well, I bought it a week before the service advisory came out. Had I known about it, I would've just got the K-3 and save a few hundred bucks).
Do you want really shallow DOF? Are you going to be shooting a lot over ISO 3200? Can you live with the DA 12-24 or 15mm LTD as your wide angles?