This morning, I was talking with JB, a friend and coworker about my debate on whether to get the K20D at San Jose Camera and support real camera shops, and the state of California, or to buy it of the net and save $30 on the camera and $60 in sales tax.
He decided that he needed to come with me to San Jose Camera and make sure that I didn't shirk my duty, and fail to buy a camera today. While we were there, he then dropped $430 or so on a SB900 flash for his D700. At lunch, I placed on the table my K20D with 18-250, My K100D super with DA40 and my FA31. I felt that those 2 bodies and 3 lenses do a very good job of expressing the strengths of Pentax. But, without going into those subtleties, I pointed at the array of camera gear and said, "That cost me about what you paid for your D700 body". Mind you, I'm not disparaging the D700. If I had $2700 to drop on a camera body, I'd own one. There are shots it'll get that my gear won't, but it is an interesting contrast between performance and value. -- Photographs are like sentences, the best ones have both subjects and verbs. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
