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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-12-2016, 03:10 PM
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I'm sorry, biz-engineer, but this is a really dumb statement. I worked as a software engineer for a number of years; my wife has been a chemistry professor. We have adequate income for our needs, but the most I have ever spent so far on a camera kit for myself is just over $700 for the Canon EOS Elan kit I bought in 1995. Why? Because we choose to make regular and consistent donations to charity, and we make other choices as well. Those things are important. Yes, I could make a small reduction of those expenditures and use the money to buy a K-1, but a hobby should never be more important than other people. This doesn't mean that I have lost interest in photography; I don't take thousands of pictures each year, but I regularly take 500 or more per year, and I enjoy it as much as I ever have {which is what is important!!}
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-11-2016, 08:30 PM
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Part of the issue is that too many believe the "glass is forever" myth.
Yes, 20-year-old glass may work just as well today as it did 20 years ago, but working exactly as it did 20 years ago is its limit, and even people who thought it was great 20 years ago may not feel it is so terrific today.
Thus, for a few weeks people are happy trying their old glass on their new camera, but then will start comparing it to the new glass elsewhere and discontentment builds up quickly.
There is only so much modern FF glass available.
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