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Hello there guys, I have a bit of a dilemma here, and i would like you opinions
I had the joy of obtaining my first DSLR camera about three years back, a Pentax K20D. Its a great camera and all, but being a beginner at the time, all i cared for where megapixels and "zoom". I am not very invested into the Pentax brand and so now that I am more "educated" regarding cameras, I have decided to study the market and brands before any further investment. My reasoning is, if I am going to jump ships, better now than once I am more invested into any brand. So i took a look around at the big two. Initially I was looking at Nikon, and then I stumbled upon the Canon mp-e 65 mm macro lens. This lens was very interesting to me, as I always liked looking at very small things, usually less than 5mm in length, yet I knew that even with a true macro lens, I would need to crop heavily to get the results I wanted. The mp-e 65mm however, changed things, it would not be necessary to crop unless I wanted to. So I "decided" I would jump ships, and began looking at the canon bodies. I was disappointed. I had grown quite found of the smallish size of the K20D, and those huge cameras, well they just could not do..... also i failed to find something to convince me that this was an upgrade, since most of the specs were not significantly better.
So what should I do? I really like the Pentax brand, especially the weather sealing an the systematically smaller cameras/lenses, but at the same time I'm dying for the canon mp-e 65