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Forum: Pentax K-70 & KF
07-22-2017, 10:25 PM
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Why'd I get a K70? Basically, better sensor than the K50, and a few improvements like the tilting screen. I also considered jumping to Canon. There's a new lens coming out from Tamron that is like the holy grail of walk-around APS-C wildlife photography lenses, and Canon cameras are far more user-friendly than Pentax cameras, where the manual assumes you already know how to use the camera and just need a reminder of where things are in the menus (to which I have to say, buy Yvon Bourque's e-book, for example on autofocus modes he spends two pages on what the K70 manual spends 3 lines on). In the end I decided that the higher resolution of the K70 was equivalent to getting a longer lens from the perspective of me getting usable crops, and I already owned Pentax lenses, including the Pentax DA 55-300mm WR that is my go-to wildlife photography lens and the 18-135 zoom that is my photograph-the-peeps-at-the-barbecue lens. And the other possibility -- going to Micro Four-Thirds to get something not so bloody heavy to haul around in the bush -- turned out to be ridiculously expensive compared to just picking up a new body for my existing lenses. Plus the Pentax gear is weather resistant, while the low-end Canon Rebel gear that's basically equivalent capability-wise is like the wicked witch of the west, it melts if it gets wet.
That said, I was close to jumping ship to Canon. While the top of the line Rebel T7i isn't weather sealed, it's similar in capability otherwise but with a couple generations better electronics and autofocus, the ability to record 1080p/60p video, and much better usability (nice touch-screen system that incorporates everything we're accustomed to from smartphones now). And access to the latest greatest lenses coming out. The K70 was good enough to keep me on Pentax -- for now. But not by much.
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