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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-22-2018, 12:15 PM
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When I quit smoking years ago I actually used an app that tracked how much I was not spending. The app had the ability to add items to your wish list and as you saved money by not smoking the app told you to go and buy things off of that list as your reward. For me it was really very effective.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-10-2018, 12:57 PM
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Wow, comparing the D750 to an underperforming crop camera is a bit extreme. I am currently switching to Nikon myself, inhad been considering the K-1 but have held off on both that and expanding my lens collection for quite some time. I finally made my decison in December for the following reasons:
- Better AF. I like shooting action, things like soccer and the motorcycle ice racing I will be shooting tomorrow.
- Low noise: The D750 is excellent with high ISOs which is awesome for low light shooting. No crop camera will touch it.
- Lenses: This has been my biggest hangup, there are lenses and upgrades i wanted but i got cold feet on the whole system when 3rd parties stopped supporting. I like the 1.8 primes I have now, I really like shooting wide open, I am super impressed by the new Tamron G2 lenses not being made for Pentax, i just did some hand held testing of the Tamron 70-200 G2 that came in the mail yesterday and it had no issuse at all shooting 200mm and 1/25 shutter hand held, its an amazing lens and the VR is mindblowing. I also like my excellent wide angle Tokina which was quite the bargen in price.
- Tons of used market equipment available and not expensive.
- Flash Systems: I enjoy flash photography and now that I’m investing in the very reasonabily priced but fully equipt ecosystem from Godox I am just amazed at what it can do. I use a mix of speedlights and strobes. Godox has it all unless you shoot Pentax. I also have a SB600 I picked up for a steal at a pawn shop, have made use of the Nikon CLS with that for some off camera at night street photography and that was also amazing.
- I got my D750 with grip plus some other extras for $1500 from B&H - that is a bargen that has never been matched.
Pentax has some advantages, but ultimately i found that those advantages were no longer outweighing what i wanted to be able to do. I made the switch and have been very happy with it so far. Still have my K-5ii and I am still using it for some stuff, but less than my other camera. I do less landscapes than anything else it seems, the lenses I had and wanted on my wish list were allmost all not WR so WR isnt really key.
Comes down to what you want from a system, so far Nikon is showing me more of what I want for what I want to do so that is where I am going now... Took me a couple years to make the jump though, and there are some things I do miss (ergonomics on my K-5ii being one of them).
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
09-15-2014, 02:55 PM
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Look at what you want to do with your camera, and consider what lenses you will need for those things.
If I was starting from scratch again at this point I would have to really take another serious look at the options. I love my camera, I really do, but the trends I see with 3rd parties starting to shy away from us makes me uneasy. Combine lowering 3rd party support with the fact that Pentax does have some holes in the lens lineup, especially when looking at a longer lens or fast AF. Don't count on someday picking up that Sigma lens that you might want, for example, I bought the LAST NEW Sigma 70-200 2.8 that I could find in the US after Sigma stated they were discontinuing it. It isnt even the latest version, but the only other new one I could find was on E-Bay and located in Hong Kong. This is a lens I knew I was going to want when I got my frist Pentax camera about a year ago to shoot some kids sports, the discontinuation forced me to move a little quicker than I had planned but I have not regretted getting that lens for one minute. There is currently no equivalent other than the Tamron version (which is slightly slower at AF according to reports) and finding one now is very difficult.
There are other areas that we suffer compared to the competition, flash systems would be another example. After sale support has also been pretty bad according to some threads here (months for repairs?)
I don't want to be all negative, There are many advantages to our system (in body SR, nice viewfinders, ergonomics of the bodies, dual control dials, legacy glass, etc.), but just make sure you know what you are buying into.
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
09-19-2014, 11:14 AM
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I've been tempted by a few of their offerings, but I have to say this one just does not appeal to me at all. Those images don't make this look like something I would want even a little bit.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
03-16-2014, 04:31 PM
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Just want to add that the kit lenses with the K-50 are DAL lenses vs. DA lenses --- They can be found for less than $100 if you look for them. I got them with my K-50 and I do still use them for less than perfect weather, but my primary lens now is the Tamron 28-75 f2.8 (which I just got with my K-5ii and I absolutely love it) - The Sigma 50-200 f2.8 is on my list as the next-have-to-have lens.
Two more cents, I have some manual lenses (A and M 50 1.7s and a M 50 2.0), I have used them on an old pentax film SLR I have and on the K-50 ... I can focus them quickly on the film SLR (nice split-prism view finder and all) but I get mostly out of focus shots when I try to use them on my DSLR. It's probably my lack of skill, but just wanted to point out that my MF lenses are generally not used because I struggle with them. I just don't think that current cameras are built with manual focus in mind, especially if compared to cameras that were designed with manual focus as their primary focusing method. I know I can replace the focus screen and get better results, but I have struggled with the idea that my metering can get messed with and that the VF becomes dimmer if I do... I am just not sure that using MF is worth it... Just my unskilled opinion ;)
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