Originally posted by aslyfox Thanks, just came from the compatibility chart
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Originally posted by BigDave Welcome to the forums from another New York Stater (Hudson Valley). The lenses will work fine on the K70. The Sigma DG will even work well with the K-1. I think the 170-500 Sigma is also a DG, so the choice is yours. The Pentax DA will work with either, but with the K-1, it is best to use the camera's crop mode (using the central part of the sensor). The flash should be fine for both also.
If the lenses are reasonably clean, pick one every few months or a year to get cleaned, if you even need to. The K70 is a good camera, gives good image quality and has some nice features. You may have an itch to start over, but as you already have an investment in lenses and flash, and you want to keep within a tight budget, just getting a nice new body would be the most cost effective way to go I think.
In any case, once you start shooting more, show us some images. Rochester has some nice places to shoot, from Niagara in the west, to Letchworth in the south, even in the apple orchards along Lake Ontario and up near Sodus Point- Chimney Bluffs is dynamic!
You are correct, Lots of nice places to shoot around here, spend quite a bit of time riding motorcycling and paddling, mostly in the Adirondacks, and a car show here and there. When shooting landscapes I use primarily the 2 smaller lenses and the monster as I call it just out on the open but need to make the time to go to the refuge and play with it some more. Having been across the prairies of Canada and through the Rockies to Alaska and back, I'll need to be careful of not bogging myself down as there are endless opportunities to shoot up there. The stark contrast between the the landscape on the prairie to the mountains makes you awestruck, both beautiful in there own rights, now composing them for effect is the challenging part, all beautiful but getting the balance for the shot that makes you say wow makes you go back for more. Of all the pics I shot while up through there on motorcycle, 14,000 miles in 27 days I have 8-10 that I truly like above the rest. Others say there all beautiful, but most haven't been there and to see it, and seeing it is one thing, to photograph it is another, and to me I think it is harder to capture on film than it is for a good painter to replicate the scene well, others will disagree. I have a beautiful view down towards the Catskills from my back porch 45-60 miles on a good clear day, but try to get it on film with detail the way I would like is a different story. What body would you recommend? I don't shoot sports or weddings, gave that up when I gave up my manual film Cannons and gear years ago, that was work, I'm in it for fun now, in fact I travel alone or with my wife as I'm in my own world when I see something to shoot, she has patients and grabs a book.