Originally posted by Shanti Dear Otis... bashing..only when I dropped my K3II+DA300 on the floor
Sorry!
I knocked my K5IIs off a shelf with the Bigma 50-500 HSM OS mounted and it severely damaged my camera, though thankfully the Bigma was not damaged at all.
This has left me with a K5IIs that will only MF and has no aperture control on lenses without an aperture ring.
That is how I ended up ordering the K1. I'm not in the same league as most shooters here, and the K1 is massive overkill for my needs, but if forced to buy a new camera (and I was) then it did make sense to go for the latest greatest.
I don't do BIF or action sports, in fact most of my shots are sitting at my desk and shooting out the windows at birds and squirrels. For this I will enjoy the crop mode on the K1 which will give me some K5IIs size shots with a few added benefits of better high ISO and the 5 stop SR. I do intend to do some portrait work and the FF will be of great benefit there.
My general feeling has never changed.....that a shooter should use the gear they desire and need the most with the best benefit for their needs. Pentax has more than satisfied me in this regard over the years, so I have felt no need to switch. Great cameras at reasonable prices with the features I use most.
If I was younger, and a BIF or sports shooter, then I might go with Nikon and invest there. The shooter should come first and not the brand. We get locked into a brand conversation when in my belief, it should be a shooter conversation. If fair comparisons are made, I think Pentax wins most of those conversations, but where there are exceptions that meet other needs, we should not look down on those that take advantage of what is out there....and I don't.
Sorry for the long reply...I am old, have two broken feet, am cranky in the mornings, so I get carried away at times....Mrs Rupert says "too many times".
Best Regards!