[magkelly]

I'd get a K-7 and the best lenses I can afford for that $$$. Going DSLR for me is a necessary step towards going pro at some point. As much as I like my analog equipment I'll need a DSLR to start working as a professional. My analog equipment isn't up to it, and if I am going to have to buy new gear anyway I might as well go digital and keep the analog for shooting for my own pleasure. K-7, good lenses, good flash, basic lighting kit, and I'd be 99% there in terms of equipment.

That is a goal actually, the Pentax DSLR, a decent kit of lenses, lighting equipment, et all, and I don't mean to spend more than 3K when the time comes. I don't need 25K though 10K would be nice. I'd have more leeway and maybe I could have a second body and a nice studio space besides.

Portraits, boudoir and glam work in particular, micro stock stuff, product photography, kids, pets, anything I could, except for weddings most likely...

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[RoxnDox]

Hmmm. Guess I'd go with

Current top of the line Pentax (I like my old glass so why change),
a few new bits of glass to have the weather-sealing,
a new computer & monitor setup to have enough storage and processing horsepower,
a decent printer for making prints up to 11x14 (a size I like),
a nice lightweight carbon-fiber tripod to add to my collection,
a custom waterproof housing for the camera (I want to take up scuba...)
a good lighting rig (couple of flashes, triggers, accessories, and the price of a seminar from some expert person so I can learn how to use them effectively),
and some seminars/etc on landscape and underwater shooting...

Jim

[yeatzee]

canon 5d mkII and canon MP-E65/MT-24ex for macro shooting

Pentax 645D with a couple of primes (I'd love to try this camera for macro's!).

Pentax K-7 with all my favorite focal lengths in MF and AF forms (I.e. FA* 85mm and M 85mm)...

[LensScribe]

Three strobes >500W + stands + softboxes + etc;
A couple more flashes and some wireless triggers;
A super-wide prime, Macro Takumar 50/4, Takumar 85/1.8, FA 85/1.4, FA 70-200/2.8 and the FA LTDs;
A serious tripod (yes... one that never smiles);
An analogue 645 or Hasselblad kit;
An EPSON V750 scanner (or equivalent);

and... the mythical full-frame Pentax plus accoutrements (or a 5D II with an m42 adapter and a shaved mirror).

The change would probably go on a good laptop, and anything left thereafter would go in a 'next big photography thing' piggy bank.

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[HEEGZ]

645D system with a range of glass.
k-7 with a BUNCH of sick glass....

I would do the same as Nomad.

[Mike Cash]

Get the remaining Takumars I don't yet have and spend the remaining $24,000+ on some b/w developing gear and a boxcar load of cheap b/w film and a honking big-assed fridge to keep it in.

[Lowell Goudge]

I can see easily, assuming I stay with pentax, (I do like the cameras), that I would go after probably 3 big expensive lenses, Probably pentax 600F4, 400F2.8 and 300F2.8, Or if I could not get good ones, The three big sigmas 300F2.8, 500F4.5 and 800F5.6,

The rest would be spent on a few new and used bodies, including another K7, a K20 and a second *istD, all with split image (Katzeye since I can afford them)

and then I would fill out the rest with a few more flashes, filters, tripod and gimple head, and old lenses. I only have 20 or so MF lenses, there must be more out there worth having, if for nothing else, then just to play.

[ivoire]

I can see easily, assuming I stay with pentax, (I do like the cameras), that I would go after probably 3 big expensive lenses, Probably pentax 600F4, 400F2.8 and 300F2.8, Or if I could not get good ones, The three big sigmas 300F2.8, 500F4.5 and 800F5.6,

gets my vote plus 645d with lenses

(keeping the K7)

[Rupert]

As much as I am tempted by the Nikon D700, I would most likely stay with Pentax....I have so far, and could buy a D700 any day I wanted. Pentax is sort of the "odd man out"...kind of like me....and I like that, combined with the fact that they are continually coming up with new innovations that are very useful and well, innovative!

I would spend it all on the 645D and lenses for it. It would make me change my style of shooting, which might just be a good thing.
Regards!

[casil403]

Bigger computer with storage a cool slick mega high end printer tons of ink and different papers.

[creampuff]

I would keep my current K-7, because changing the camera brand isn't as critical imo, you'd get pretty much the same results.
However with that 25K, I would go out and buy a whole bunch of Profoto lighting gear. Now THAT will make a dramatic effect on my images. Why? Lighting control.

[rparmar]

Didn't we already do this one?

645D

[mattb123]

645D system with a range of glass.
k-7 with a BUNCH of sick glass....

Me too, but I might wait to get whatever is coming after the K7.

[Nesster]

1) more takumars, whatever pickin's Mike Cash leaves me.
2) good wide angle for the P645, and another 120 back.
3) better scanner for film up to... large format
4) A Graflex of some sort, or equivalent, so I can look like a press photographer
5) maybe the new Voigtlander 6x9 folder, or maybe a Certo 6
6) boxes n boxes of film, processing for the color stuff, and a small freezer

All the above still leaves plenty of room for a 645D, but I'd wait a year for the price to come down and any teething problems to be fixed. And that STILL should leave room for a possible P6x7

[ChatMechant]

Gold-plated K1000
....what?