Hello. My Name is Chris Wright. I live in New Hampshire, USA. I have been a life-long Pentax user up until the digital camera revolution. At that time I just couldn't justify the price for a Digital SLR, so pretty much had point and shoot cameras for a while and then more recently a Panasonic Lumix FZ300 SLR-like super zoom. I still have my most recent Pentax film SLR equipment, which I may now be selling.
Like many I started with the Pentax K1000 and the 50mm kit lens in high school and participated in my high schools camera club, learning black and white developing and printing, Over the years I moved up to the Pentax P3 and finally the Pentax ZX-50 with the venerable Sigma 28-105mm F2.8 zoom.
After about a 15 year hiatus, I have just returned to Pentax by purchasing a K-70 with Pentax DA 18-135mm and 55-300mm lenses along with the GPS unit. I chose Pentax once again for the the price/feature advantage that Pentax has over the competition and especially for the Astrotracer capability as I want to get into some astrophotography (I blame Comet Neowise for that). I picked the K-70 for the newer 24 megapixel sensor, and preferred some of its features over the more expensive KP. I've had the camera for only about 2 weeks so far, and love it. I just have to get used to manual zoom again:-)
When doing research to get myself back up to speed on current Pentax products, I ran across this excellent Pentax Forum. I imagine I will be at least lurking on here a lot.
I've attached a star photo I took from my backyard last week to test the Astrotracer (and my ability to get the stars in focus).
That's my story in a nut shell,
Chris
Originally posted by PJ1 
Post #1 by cdw2000
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