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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-13-2016, 02:05 PM
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I think there was once a certain modesty, an old-school sense that one should deny oneself pleasures in favor of saving as a virtue signal. Profligacy was tacky, thrift was classy, parsimony was pathology. Maintaining appearances in some circles meant NOT Gatsby.
Buying used is a variant of this, or choosing to have a couple dozen manual focus lenses or a couple great zooms, but not both.
At a point, selecting one thing to act as a spendthrift is acceptable - maybe even quietly expected - demonstrating the fruits of one's previous self-denial.
It's uncomfortable to act contrary to 50 years of habit and just go buy the damned camera at a store because I want it.:D
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-11-2016, 05:36 PM
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Well maybe I exagerated a bit. i've always been a buyer of used gear - even the contemporary stuff. Since the K-1 was announced I have purchased more new Pentax gear, in units and dollars, than in the prior ten years aggregated. K-1, D FA28-105, Ricoh-era Limiteds, some small stuff - at B&M dealers, too..
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-11-2016, 12:23 PM
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Many of the people most ardently decrying the need for a K-1 are the same people who insisted it was a dire necessity (as it was predicted they would do).
I don't care though. I won't likely go back. My gear portfolio will be smaller, more rational and less compromising, and I'll be happier. What's not to like about that?
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-11-2016, 06:21 AM
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This discussion is really funny. For years and years every thread eventually turned into a discussion about why Pentax must have a FF and why jumping ship to X (brand, format) is necessary, with APSc owners defending Pentax. Now that we have the K-1 there's a recurring multi-thread discussion about why FF isn't necessary and how APSc can do every single thing FF can do, with FF owners defending Pentax. And our defense is reduced to, "I'm rich, I want it, and I have it; so there."
Sheesh.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-10-2016, 12:31 PM
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As you posted upthread, it is a fun hobby. K-1 completes the lenses I have, obsoletes all the DA lenses I had except the SMC 15/4 and simply feels right. It's more fun than anything else I have. I've mostly used 5 lenses since May 6th and I'm selling things that don't get used.
People can discuss merits all the day long, but you can't rishii more fun.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-03-2016, 04:11 PM
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I'm really getting tired of this refrain. Can you please quit?
There are only a few thousand K-1 buyers a month for you to protect from their own ignorance anyway.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
07-31-2016, 01:35 PM
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I must be so happy to have it that I don't feel the weight :D
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
07-30-2016, 05:27 AM
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@BarryPearson wrote above about his personal photographic history. I think of that as context. Nothing in life is universally 'worth it' but in your personal context something is the last thing that is 'worth it'. First, examine your own context. Here's mine:
- This is a hobby
- I want to make good photographs, but
- The TAKING of photographs is the hobby - the enjoyment of the act, with the gear
- Initially, around 1998, my goal was to try every lens I previously couldn't afford - buy, try, sell, buy the next
- I still shoot film, mostly with 70's SMC lenses and bodies - same goal for cameras
- I began keeping items that I enjoyed using
- I kept an LX and an MZ-S
- I kept the three FA Limiteds
- I was given a K-3 and bought second-hand copies of the DA Limiteds for it
- I experimented with Q
- I kept an MX-1
The K-1 seems to have closed the 'Buy it, try it, sell it' phase of my hobby. Now I want a discrete set of cameras and lenses to use, not a random collection; a menu rather than a smorgasbord. K-1 allows me to use every lens I want to to keep,a without any compromises, and I don't need to keep lenses I don't want just because I have the body. As I learn to use K-1 my photographs will improve through practice and familiarity and the goal will move more toward photographs..
A K-1, the Holy Trinity zooms, the three Princesses and nothing else could be a logical, no-compromises, new-purchase kit. I consider that the base case. Work up or down from there.
Here's what works in my context.
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