Hey all, I have been a life long canon user. I try and sell what I can to pay for the photo passion. I mostly shoot landscape, monument, wildlife (macro and tele).
I had the opportunity with my pal tomO2013 a month ago to play with the Pentax K-1 Pre production model. Wow. It checked off so many things I have disliked about my canon body. Quality of image, dynamic range, sensor stabilization, and on and on.
At the time I was looking to make bigger investment in glass. My long lens currently is 300mm with my 7d mkii (480mm equivalent on full frame), but I want bigger reach yet.
Here is why I am considering the move: although the glass options are amazing on canon and all the 3rd party lenses, Canon has been withholding features for so long and the dynamic range (especially in the shadows) has lacked. Even though they are making progress with 80d, they are years behind and they don't really care because of their market share. The thought of investing in more glass with body's that will continue to lag behind the rest, makes little sense to me.
Now there are some awesome things I love about my 7dmkii that I am concerned will be massive drop with the K1: Autofocus and facial tracking of fast moving subjects (mostly my crazy kids) but also the occasional sports shoot. It also seems to work very well on animals. 11fps raw will be missed with wildlife for sure. That seems to be about it.
In my consideration to selling everything I have and moving to Pentax, the one thing I am struggling with is the glass. The new lenses look great, but they are beyond my budget. So if anyone had an opinion on what to go after in the used or affordable new market to replace my canon glass would be great:
- Wide angle 10-18mm (16-29mm equiv) - Landscape, would consider older manual prime.
- Std Zoom 18-135mm (29-216mm equiv) - Great General lens, family, portraits, travel, etc.
- Prime 40mm F2 (64mm equiv) - Thinking a used 50mm f1.4
- Macro 100mm - nature, insects, digitizing film (absolute must have)
- Tele 70-300mm (112-480mm equiv) - would like low apature 70-200 plus the super tele on the next line.
- wish list super tele - autofocus requird, prime or zoom 400mm +
Thanks in advance,
Darcy