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Originally posted by KxBlaze ... the Nikon shooter was very nice, he came up to me and said, "I notice you had a nice camera"... then he was trying to tell me .. Nikon is better, you should have gotten a Canon, etc..... I told the gentleman to "Please stop right there and please stop talking to me ....",
I would have taken the chance to explore what his rationale was. As an engineer and experienced photographer I think I could have run some rings round him
Pentax did their image no good by being so late with a FF. Even if you don't use a FF (and many Canikons don't), the presence of a FF in the brand marks it as a professional contender. Of course, the fact that Pentax make a medium format and Canikon don't is a good riposte to the suggestion that Pentax is a mere snapshot brand.
I have a different impression of Pentax - when I first bought a camera (1980s) Pentax were one of the big 5 in 35 mm (Canon, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus and Pentax). Minolta and Olympus seem to have dropped out, and Sony have come from no-where with their quirky FF cameras, leaving Pentax where it was IMHO.
There are many people who would never buy anything from Sony on principal, following the root-kit scandal :
Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal - Wikipedia