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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
12-19-2011, 02:29 PM
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Your past experience with Pentax makes the decision a bit more complicated... On the one hand, you have some good pentax lenses that will go a long way into completing your kit. Do you find you like the pic quality of the Canon (color, sharpness, high iso, etc)? And how do you like the build quality (single control wheel, pentaprism vs pentamirror)? Of course the t3i has an articulating screen, so that's a feature you need to know if you can live without...
Really, it sounds like it's going to come down to the feature sets you feel like you have to have. Now you mentioned that you bought the Canon for video; now I'm not familiar with the features on the T3i, but a friend has a 7d and it has quite a few video capabilities that the K5 does not have. And that could matter a lot to you... Of course there are the issues of weather sealing, in body stabilization, and increased customization that the k5 has that the T3i does not.
But regardless, it would be interesting to hear what your impressions of the t3i vs the k10 in terms of build, pic quality, and ergonomics. Although I am not going to switch, it's still nice to know (and a friend of mine is thinking of buying a dslr and knowing a bit more about Canon's strengths and weaknesses will help her).
Good luck w/ your decision.
Mike
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
12-17-2011, 03:06 PM
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I see you're in PDX as I am... weather sealing is a great feature to have on the K5 in our area, but it is good to have a lens that has WR as well. The kit lens is pretty decent as is the 18-135. I also have the 50-200 wr lens by pentax and it also is pretty decent. The nice thing the 18-55wr and the 50-200 wr is that they are relatively inexpensive and are relatively common to buy on this forum's marketplace where you can save a few bucks by buying used. But for indoor or low light shooting, I generally will use my Sigma 18-50 2.8 or Tamron 28-75 2.8 because they are sharper wide open than the kit lenses and have a faster aperture which will let me shoot with higher shutter speeds or lower ISO to reduce graininess. Of course I use prime lenses too to get an even lower aperture for indoor shooting, but zooms can give you a bit more flexibility until you know what focal lengths make sense for your style of shooting.
Really, the brilliant thing about all these lenses is that they will be stabilized since the Pentax bodies have the stabilization in the body.
I've been a very happy pentax shooter for several years and find that in our climate, weather sealing is a pretty big deal. Although I don't use the weather sealing all the time, I think it gives me the most flexibility for an all purpose lens. The zooms with a fixed f2.8 max aperture tend to be a little more specialized and more expensive. With the great high ISO capabilities of the K5, faster apertures aren't as important as they were, but I think it's nice to have if you can afford it.
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