Originally posted by Rondec Well, fortunately, Pentax has a lot of pretty small primes including the FA limiteds. My philosophy has always been that you put the grip on if you are going to be shooting all day with heavy lenses and leave it off if you are just doing walk around with smaller ones.
I don't mind a little smaller camera as long as the grip is nice. The K10 and K20 were about perfect size for me.
Better served by the DA primes if small and light is a factor. There's 100% more of them too... 6 vs. 3
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Originally posted by normhead Or don't share your perspective.... there's always that other thing. Accusing other people of rationalization and justification.. that's exactly what you do , using your own perspective. Your assumption that other people will have the same feelings as you if they owned the gear you do.... and they don't only because you have more toys.... well... I'll just be polite.
Honestly a lot of us just aren't bothered by such petty details. If it's small I'm happy, if it's large I'm happy, as long as my lenses attach to it. But for fitting in my camera bag as second body for spot use when it gives me some advantage over my k-3, smaller is better. Since all my gear must fit into pelican cases for travel, smaller is better. And since I carry my gear for kilometres smaller and lighter is better. If you want to call that rationalization and justification... you should get the finger.
But that doesn't mean that generalizations can't be made...
Like Canon has 4 FF DSLR's to choose from and Nikon has 4 as well. Canon and Nikon (and Fuji)have 24/35/50/85/135 FAST primes, Canon and Nikon have F2.8 AND F4 Pro zooms. ALL USM.
Pentax has 2 modern ring drive lenses rebadged Tamrons and 1 DC 70-200. That's it so far.
Canon and Nikon both have a radio controlled TTL flash system that's the industry Pro standard.
So I'm not accusing anyone of rationalizing or justifying anything, you want what you want and rightly so, but the things I listed are not "petty details" either.
And giving someone the finger and telling them not to share their perspective on a forum because you don't like what they said is a bit over the top, no? Just sayin'