I added more Pentax gear to my kit due to Ben.
Back when I lurked here in early 2007, Ben's art & his insider info hinting that Pentax France thought full frame was just right around the corner made me buy deeply into Pentax. I'd get calls from my favorite local shop when some K Mount lens treasure had just arrived & was available for me to take home & test out.
I stopped lurking here in July 2008 & joined Pentax Forums.
I stopped rewarding Pentax USA with money after my K20D purchase for Christmas 2008 & I since then I have shopped deeply elsewhere & got most of my full frame desires met.
I've noticed when someone leaves the Pentax Cult I am reminded how the last great camera issued wasn't really all that improved over their last dslr.
I did not buy a K-7, K-5 or K-5II. Thats a tidy $3,000+ saved I spent on other brand gear.
As I own both Canon & Nikon Full Frame I follow other forums & look foward to seeing Benji elsewhere.
Due to this lovely chat spot in "off topics "at PF I read up on a host of off brand experiences.
I look foward to reading about the good & bad with Ben's D600. It seems Nikon has sorted out the long protracted quality control issues & now someone like Ben can be in awe of its output on day one! He has once again influenced a purchase possibility, though this time in Nikon's favor. I buy gear during Thanksgiving sales due to best bang for my buck.
D600 had dropped off my shopping radar infavor of buying nothing in 2013.
Ben, you should try out 14-24mm 2.8 Crystal Nanocoat ED Nikkor. Its easily my favorite lens I own for vacations & odd things I capture. It is an acquired taste, maybe not so much for fashion but a big plus for holiday trips.
Originally posted by benjikan This is NOT an inquisition. I know how to use a camera and most certainly do not have to explain myself to you.
I taught photography as a guest professor at the Sorbonne School in Orleans, France. Was the Canon Photographer of the Year in France. Was sponsored by Canon, Bronica, Agfa and Pentax and have won multiple awards in photography including the Marie Claire Gold Medal for best advertising campaign for LUX soap. Have had exhibitions at the Arles Festival and the International Festival of Fashion Photography every year in Cannes since 2007 as well as permanent expositions at LUMAS Galleries World Wide
Benjamin Kanarek - Tableaux, photographie, art photographique en ligne chez LUMAS and finally, had my images exposed at the Pentax Stand in Paris.
I have worked for magazines the likes of:
Cosmopolitan (France and Italy)
Dépêche Mode
ELLE (Spain, Mexico, Vietnam, Portugal and Greece)
Fashion District News
Fashion Magazine
Flare
Glamour (France)
Harper’s BAZAAR (China, en Español & Latin America, Hong Kong, Italy)
Jardin des Modes
Jill
L’Officiel Paris
Madame Figaro
New York Daily News
New York Times Magazine
Oyster
Tank
VOGUE (China, Portugal, Brasil, Italia, Paris and South America & Mexico), RG VOGUE Brasil
Votre Beauté
W
WestEast
WWD
Yo Dona
I stayed with Pentax because like many, I was hoping for a fix and when my camera was supposedly fixed by Pentax, it would act up very quickly afterwards. The results were inconsistent, thus my hesitancy, which was also based on my loyalty to the brand the people using the system and the people at Pentax.
Thus what YOU think is meaningless. My reasons are my reasons and nobody else's. So "me thinks" it best to give it a rest!