hey gang
well this has been looming for a while.
I finally got sick of waiting for Pentax to come out with a full frame DSLR camera
I have been a Pentax ( and Pentax equivalent) guy "since Adam was a boy"
But now I have gone over to the dark side and joined the mighty ranks of the Canon owners.
This just about happened a couple of years ago, when I was waiting for some time for the Pentax K5 to be released in Australia. As it was, I had gone from the K10 to the K7 which I was hoping to skip. It was a year after the I got the K7 that the K5 was finally released. Ohhh well
anyway here's a pic of the new toy.....
A whole new and steep learning curve is now ahead of me and I learn to navigate my way around a totally unfamiliar menu system. But hey never to old to learn something new
Dont get me wrong .... the Pentax K5 is a very capable camera and holds its ground very well against its comparable Canon and Nikon competition and I would recommend it to anyone. It will continue to get used for a lot of Lunar and Solar eclipse etc photography making use of the huge telephoto lens I got for it for last novembers' total solar eclipse.
I just really wanted a top quality full frame camera and the extra 8Mpix doesnt hurt either hahaha. Canon has always been my other choice of camera make, I have never considered Nikon ... looks at their reviews etc and just said... naaaaa not for me... LOL.
cheers
Dave
well this has been looming for a while.
I finally got sick of waiting for Pentax to come out with a full frame DSLR camera
I have been a Pentax ( and Pentax equivalent) guy "since Adam was a boy"
But now I have gone over to the dark side and joined the mighty ranks of the Canon owners.
This just about happened a couple of years ago, when I was waiting for some time for the Pentax K5 to be released in Australia. As it was, I had gone from the K10 to the K7 which I was hoping to skip. It was a year after the I got the K7 that the K5 was finally released. Ohhh well
anyway here's a pic of the new toy.....
A whole new and steep learning curve is now ahead of me and I learn to navigate my way around a totally unfamiliar menu system. But hey never to old to learn something new
Dont get me wrong .... the Pentax K5 is a very capable camera and holds its ground very well against its comparable Canon and Nikon competition and I would recommend it to anyone. It will continue to get used for a lot of Lunar and Solar eclipse etc photography making use of the huge telephoto lens I got for it for last novembers' total solar eclipse.
I just really wanted a top quality full frame camera and the extra 8Mpix doesnt hurt either hahaha. Canon has always been my other choice of camera make, I have never considered Nikon ... looks at their reviews etc and just said... naaaaa not for me... LOL.
cheers
Dave
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