Originally posted by Shanti Tell the truth D750/810 owners
Hi planning to get a FF D750 or 810 soonish,as need longer glass 150-600 or 100-400 .
I just think if I get on my Pentax gear K5II & some good glass ,maybe $3500 in all invested,will never get used after I see what the FF can do. I love Pentax for the tank body & size & primes ,but will find it hard to be satisfied with landscapes or wildlife shots,once I use the FF system, and the amount of detail there is, and low light capabilities.
Anyone who has both systems D750/ 810 & Pentax--- do you still use your Pentax gear & for what? I need some good reasons not to sell it all off
Thanks for any help
Look I don't own a D750, but I did once own a Nikon. I recently tried out a D7100 and D750, and the high ISO on the D750 was very impressive. But the D750 was designed to replace the D600 and D610, and the later did not have very good high ISO ability (There's a web review where the K-3 beats the D600
Nikon D600 vs. Pentax K-3 Image Comparison: Pentax Sweeps Nikon) Even when the D600 first came out, it got walloped by the Canon 6D for high ISO performance. But what is key in all of this, is that Nikon had the oil splatter problem with the D600, and were defeated in court in the U.S. But guess what, Nikons still have serious problems with oil splatter. Honestly, I had no idea how bad it was until a salesman at a local camera store told me about his D7000's problems, so I went home and googled it. There is a whole host of models with the oil splatter problem including the D750 ...... STILL ! and this was the model that was to solve Nikons woes over oil splatter. So just check online for further reports on which models are having the problem.
Anyway, high ISO is really impressive on the D750 - but you don't see me rushing out to buy one ! Its so cheap and tacky in the hand. The button layout is awful , and its not free flowing and ergonomic like a Pentax. But if you are left handed, you could easily live with it - its more of a lefty's camera (No offence to the communists and left handed people !) I think the D7100 and D750 share the exact same body and chassis, and its huge. For me the image quality in terms of colors is real off putting. Even side by side comparisons with Canon, shows that Canon has the color right (6D). The entry level tiers of Nikon have bad colors, as far as I'm concerned, but the top tier look very right........ But thats the product separation in Nikon.
Once you get the D750 or D810, you should make the decision
then whether to sell your Pentax gear. Try renting a D750 for a couple of weeks to see if it works for you. But if its snowing or rain where you live you should keep the Pentax gear, because you simply cannot use Nikon gear in the wet, I've heard too many stories from people who have lost Nikons to light rain.
High ISO performance is all an illusion anyway, considering that the Fujifilm X-A1 matches the D750 in high ISO performance.