Originally posted by Igilligan Zues - At least here there is 'some' dialog about the issues and how they relate to the real world shooting... (but we have our share of fannies too...)
Over at Fanboy Central, you can be attacked if you bring up any issues. As always, some are actually smearing the DPR reviewer of the DA* 55mm lens.
My review --- "The most overpriced 'good' lens in the history of pentax glass. Honest to goodness I will pit my $20 Helios 44M 58mm against it any day of the week! I am not sure that the AF speed beats my MF speed"
If you want to be influenced in a more postive way about buying into the Pentax system, I recommend some time there. There are Dinosaurs who have been standing knee deep in the Tarpits, bellowing about Pentax superiority for years... But please don't read the actual reviews. They will only confuse with you with facts... We all know the DPR reviewing staff are the Puppets of Nikon and Canon
But if you honestly want to be influenced in an 'informed' postive way... hang around here and look at the photos and read the good and the "bad"... As I said, we have our "Fannies" too, but they don't tend to run in packs...
This is how I see it... I am not affiliated with anything - anyone - anywhere... sad for me.
HERESY !!! Destroy ! Destroy !!!
setting aside humor, I do in fact find this forum much more informative and have a share of fanboys. but never seen someone gang up on somebody unless the person becomes evident of just merely try to troll around.
there are times that I may appear like a Pentax fanboy, but I'm not. it's just that I just recently switched to a new system and some of the few things that I read are quite derailing or atleast try to find a way of derailing people. I came here to give Pentax a fair chance. for all honesty, I would frankly say that I considered Pentax to be a long dead horse trying to salvage it's remaining carcass on the ground. that notion was very much out years ago. the last time I've heard about Pentax was in 2002. yeah, that's how unpopular Pentax was, atleast in the eyes of a camera user. common people don't even know that there is or was a Pentax brand. even a p&s Ricoh was even known better in some instances,lol. how embarrassing but true.
anyway, as I said, I'm giving Pentax a chance, eventhough that means that I have to abandon some of my darkside colleagues. there's no way they'll change their mind and they are too dependent on measurebating and marketing popularity solely at Dpreview, in which opposite case, I read other review sites, aside from dpreview and see the real world photos which are my real target or basis of a camera's capability done by a competent user. that's where I got my initial references on Pentax.
as a neutral user, and basing from the results that I got from a Pentax system, it is competent and competitive again in the market. Pentax very much satisfied me so far from what they have to offer. and besides it would be easy to go back and I could go back whenever I wish.
I dont advise people to look or based their judgement on the score or ranking. but rather see the actual real world results. because there are times that the scores don't reflect the actual result.