thinking really hard here...
Knowing how well built pentax's hardware is really makes me lean towards them, regardless. When I have gobs of money to throw out... whenever that happens, or if I get lucky, I'll try other brands... and attempt not to jump to conclusions.
I will throw a little money at some lenses for my K20D and see how things go. I hope for something even cooler than the K20D that might just blow us away sometime in the near future. Until then, I'll love the K20D. The build quality of the camera is what makes me lean towards keeping pentax as my default. I bashed the CRAP out of my k100D.. (things that would make true anal retentive product caring people throw up) NOTHING has ever gone wrong with it, and it still looks good too. Seeing that the K20D has seals all over the place and all, makes it even better.
Now I'm still at a battle of what I want for my next lenses.
I would love a fisheye for landscapes, or would the 14mm prime be a better choice?
I want to go telephoto for sports and other outdoor photography but I'm unsure, should I go with a prime lens instead of a universal zoom? I'm entirely stumped right there. What's a good suggestion of 3rd party primes/zooms?
I would like to find someone in salt lake with other camera body's/makes to go on a shoot with for true comparison. Although, I'm unsure of it that would be affective as I am so use to the function of pentax DSLR's. Doing almost every function and menu without looking is awesome.
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Offtopic (possible flamebait; I hope it doesn't come to that): DOS on an Intel iMac - or any other Macintosh, would be more useful to me than OS X.
Now, Now
All my life I've been a PC repair man and macintosh lover... they're equally capable. OS/x does a hell of a lot more than any windows distribution out of the box. Os/x almost makes me bored as I never have anything to fix.. or disable.
I suppose I needed at little something to lean me more towards sticking with what I've got and to make the best... of the best.
And I agree with all the comments on canon, I hate canon's ergonomics also. Period.