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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
11-24-2018, 10:23 AM
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No, I'm not a brand-specific guy at all, though if I had to hang my hat on just one it would be Pentax. That's certainly where most of my investment in bodies and AF glass lies, and I don't see that changing :)
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
11-24-2018, 09:24 AM
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It's just "Mike", btw ;)
The first Pentax DSLR I owned from new was a 14.6MP K-7, long since sold, after which I bought a 16MP K-5 just like the one you shoot, and which I still own. From there, I moved onto the 24MP K-3 and K-3II.
I bought the 10MP Samsung GX-10 much later because I liked the look of K10D images I'd seen, and the two cameras are essentially the same. I haven't been disappointed - the CCD sensor has a wonderful response that shows through in a lot of images. And whilst 10MP isn't a lot, it's plenty for the reproduction sizes I need.
I bought my Hasselblad HV kit "just because". At 24MP full-frame, it has the same pixel density as my Samsung GX-10, and produces fantastic photos.
I bought my A7 MkII both as a backup body to use with the lenses I have for the A-mount HV, and (primarily) to shoot the many L39, M39, M42, K-mount and other manual lenses I own. The pixel density of the A7 MkII is the same as my GX-10 and HV, so I'm all good there.
After down-sampling to the reproduction sizes I'm interested in, most of the time you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a 42MP full frame image and a 10MP APS-C image.
My equipment choices aren't driven by current and future specifications, what's possible technically, what might be in vogue, or what's considered by other people to be "standard", but by what I personally like and need :)
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
11-24-2018, 07:10 AM
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Where did I suggest you were a charlatan? :hmm:
All I've done is respond respectfully to several of your posts where you present things as irrefutable fact - what people want, what Pentax DSLR owners will do, why Pentax must go mirrorless, why members here have no vision etc. - and reposition those points as your opinions rather than facts.
And I've never been critical of your equipment choices, nor those of anyone else in this community.
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
11-24-2018, 06:34 AM
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I'll check in with you next year re that anniversay edition K-1000 mirrorless. I think you'll be waiting rather longer than that for it, but I could be wrong :p
I've long said that a good hybrid viewfinder would be a significant and important development - the best of both worlds. And I'd probably buy a Pentax with such an arrangement. But I doubt you'd see everyone hastily selling off their Pentax DSLRs. Some would, for sure, but not the mass exodus you describe, IMHO.
There's nothing unfortunate about it, and no need for you to describe it that way. It was, as with all of my equipment, a carefully thought out choice - in this case, for adapted lens work on a reasonable budget, and it has been excellent for that. So I won't be getting rid of it for some time :)
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
11-24-2018, 05:37 AM
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I shoot Pentax DSLR gear (APS-C) and Sony mirrorless full-frame. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. It's not that members here lack vision (and that's quite an assertion to make of your fellow forum members, by the way) - it's that their vision is different to yours.
I'd certainly consider buying a Pentax full frame mirrorless, but I'd equally consider a K-3II DSLR replacement...
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