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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
10-03-2010, 11:28 PM
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The results are what matters, I was a photographer a while ago for the clipsal 500 racing even here in Adelaide I was using a Pentax 67 with the 800mm f/6.7 monster lens, it was nearly three times the mass of any other camera set up at the event and more than twice the weight - however the results I got from Velvia 50 were fantastic and several event promoters actually bought the prints after they saw the original transparencies.
i'm a fourth generation photographer in my family, and my family has been using pentax ever since they came out with the spotmatic.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
10-03-2010, 07:19 PM
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I do use pentax DSLR cameras alongside my canon and nikon cameras mainly because the K-7 is small quick and it has the extremely useful TAv mode which I use a lot. While I agree that the he Pentax LX was behind the game,however just take a look at what Nikon made after the F3 - the F4 which had the ergonomics of two bricks lashed together with duct tape. Pentax really isn't in the habit of making large and bulky cameras. Nikon tried to make a small camera like pentax, the result was the Nikon FM - 10 which was actually made by cosina(the body snatcher of the camera world) and to be honest as small as it was it was a pretty average camera.
Speaking of bricks, my Nikon,canon cameras and lenses are massive compared to their pentax equivalents(and my FF Leica M9 and it's lenses are even smaller than that, though not by much I might add) in the end the best camera is the one you are most comfortable lugging around all day and more often than not I reach for the pentax.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
10-02-2010, 10:24 PM
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Pentax has had a long history to releasing products without fanfare and just letting their products be discovered by their target consumers. Pentax has never advertised their cameras in the same way canon and Nikon do...the only company I would say are worse at advertising than pentax is Leica and cosina.
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