Originally posted by mee Theres a bout 20 kabillion entrants.. they are on the left side it seems. At least if those are all entrants.
The more I hear, the less I think the K-1 would be a good choice for me, so I'm not sure why I would even want to enter this contest. I'm going to leave it for more deserving contestants.
In theory, the K-1 should be good for wide-angle photography, but I already have a Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 that meets my wide-angle needs. I don't use it very often, but I'm getting my value from it. Getting a "comparable" FF lens, namely an FF-compliant 15mm lens, would cost me much more.
I do much more telephoto shooting. The only FF-compliant telephoto lens I have is a 60-300mm f/3.8-5.4 AdaptAll lens. I could handle the manual-everything aspects of that lens - in fact, today I posted on Rupert's squirrels thread four pictures I took with that lens - but I'm thinking that my more modern Sigma 70-300mm f/f-5.6 APO and Pentax-DA 55-300 f/4-5.8 ED WR lenses are probably somewhat better. In order to get the range I currently have, I would need to spend $$$$ for the new 150-450mm lens; I'm sure that lens is better than what I have, but again at considerable cost.
Thus, even if I received the free K-1 + kit lens, the cost to me of returning to my current capabilities would be more than I have spent on cameras over the past twenty years ... we have the funds to do that, but we have so many other uses for that money.
On the other side of the balance, I would have to deal with FaceBook. As I commented elsewhere here, when this contest first became known, I started working on a low-level FB membership. As I went through the process, I decided that they had lured me into giving them more information than I had intended, so I told them to delete that account. Only tonight did that deletion finally take place. As soon as I started to create a new new account, they apparently started taking information from the supposedly deleted account. I did manage to create an account with just first initials, last name, and birthdate information, but their apparent remembering of the other stuff bothers me. Even their requiring the complete birthdate is very bothersome to me, because that is one of the primary pieces of information used in stealing a person's identity. My daughter, who is a librarian, has been studying privacy issues connected with FB; she tells me that they admit to keeping track of the name of the computer you use each time you connect with them, which could be how they connected the two sets of information despite the fact that I cleaned out cookies twice in the two weeks since I last used the first account. If I were guaranteed a K-1, this might be worth it, but certainly not at realistic odds.
So, I'm giving up on the fun of this contest to those of you who are more adventuresome. I'm going to wait and see if Pentax can come up with something more appropriate for me.
BTW - I was also not impressed at all by Ricoh's FB effort. It may just be me, but when I entered directly from Ricoh's website, rather than from the link provided here, I kept wandering off into Japanese language stuff. I hope their marketing effort can have a little more effective reach than that.