Originally posted by cygnet So all these folks that just buy on price/features/benefits reasons - how come y'all don't have Samsung cameras? You can't tell me that whatever badge is on a camera doesn't have some caché. I figure most cameras are pretty similar at similar price ranges. But I wouldn't be caught dead with a Nikon or Canon around my neck.
Most folks out there in the world at large have accumulated a batch of stereotypes about: the car/suv a certain type of person drives, the camera that a "good" photographer would use, the genre of movie specific sexes appreciate, the kinds of food certain races eat, and etc. etc., and their brains react to these assumptions without any reasoned input. I take a certain amusement in subverting their suppositions.
Oh yeah, and I'm one of those photogs that for the last 30 years has been putting black tape over the logos of all my stuff, just to confuse judgemental people a little more. And I know what you're going to say, "if there's tape over the label why wouldn't I wear a Nicanon"? Because I would know what's under the tape, and I just can't picture myself as one of "them". And yes, I'm operating under my own stereotypes, I'm just a contradictory person, and I like it that way.
I did have a Samsung GX-1S, and it was great, but I wanted a K10D/GX-10(I didn't care which) so I sold it to raise money. I wish I could have kept it and added a K10D/GX-10, but I simply couldn't afford to. And I would have bought either K10D or GX-10, but the less expensive of the two that I could find at the time I was buying was the K10D, by about $70 USD. I would have bought a Samsung GX-10 and been just as delighted. Ditto the GX-20. I have no problem with the Samsung v. Pentax question. So if Samsung DOES introduce a FF model(as rumored), AND I'm in the market for FF model(I don't feel like I NEED a FF DSLR, but I suppose that could change), I wouldn't have a problem buying it.