Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Keith Whaley wrote:
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> The one thing that I always wonder about threads like this one is how
> some Pentax users - or at least the folks on the PDML - always want > the silk purse for the price of the sow's ear ;-)
And why not, Sir?
Lenses are on thing; film bodies another; and digital bodies yet another.
Without question.
In the case of Pentax, the lenses run and run. Film bodies have
benefited from film improvements across the years.
The "Pentax" of which I speak is the pre-digital Pentax. I have one Pentax digital, the Optio S-4, and I don't know if/when I'll "need" to buy another! This is a marvelous camera!
Digital bodies are (to be) obsoleted by sensor improvements across the years. My understanding from the safe distance (bargepole) I keep from them is that the killer is noise, not pixelage; then there is the "- I shot 12,345,678,910 today. - I beat you, I shot 12,345,678,911" syndrom.
Kostas
Okay.
When I think Pentax, I think mechanical bodies and lenses.
I have plenty of each to keep me interested for more years than I have left... <g>
The rest is speculation...
keith whaley
