My interest in photography began when I was on a trip to Beijing and Shanghai back in mid-2010. Took some photos of the Bund at night and seeing how beautiful the skyline is on TV, I anticipated and thought I'd get something good. However, the image on my digital compact was dismal. That made me want to get a dSLR upon return. I read somewhere (not CS) that Pentax K-X offers good value and at the same time I stumbled upon Clubsnap and then posted my burning question. You can still see my link, typical newbie questions. :bsmilie:
There was much selling from night86mare (now edutilos), pinholecam, flowerpot, Supersimon27 and among others to buy me in. Night86mare even provided many luring photos (of lenses), Supersimon27 shared his shots and pinholecam shared the Pentax outing shots with me. I was so close to buying Pentax. I felt quite welcomed and not being shot down for my silly questions which now when I look back I chuckle to myself.
In the end, I decided to get a Canon 1000D because I had some Canon lenses passed down from film cameras. Still remember pinholecam ask me to "Proceeds to the nearest office window and jumps out". :bsmilie:
After some time, I moved from 1000D to 60D to eventually 5D2. I only started being more active when I bought the 5D2, especially to learn more techniques in landscape and architectures. For the past 7 months which I began to be active, I kept asking myself whether this amount I spend is worthwhile. It is worthwhile from a spiritual enjoyment point of view, but in the end, I want to have more value for what I own. I guess in the end there is still a part of me that wanted to use a Pentax system. There is somehow a sense of simplicity without so many lenses to choose from. I pondered about the standard zoom, pondered about 17-40 vs 16-35, pondered about which version of the 70-200. It is a bottomless pit.
Going from FF back to cropped may not be as common as cropped to FF, but I am hoping to continue pursuing my learning with K5, having heard a lot about the dynamic range of the camera. Besides that, the 7 fps also impressed me. I'm not a portrait shooter, other than the casual portraits during events so for that, I figured I'd let my OM-D do the job. I don't need very shallow dof anyway.
I'm still looking for a Sigma 10-20 f4-5.6. :bsmilie: I'm itching to bring it out to test once i get the lens, will post photos once i bring it out to test!
There was much selling from night86mare (now edutilos), pinholecam, flowerpot, Supersimon27 and among others to buy me in. Night86mare even provided many luring photos (of lenses), Supersimon27 shared his shots and pinholecam shared the Pentax outing shots with me. I was so close to buying Pentax. I felt quite welcomed and not being shot down for my silly questions which now when I look back I chuckle to myself.
In the end, I decided to get a Canon 1000D because I had some Canon lenses passed down from film cameras. Still remember pinholecam ask me to "Proceeds to the nearest office window and jumps out". :bsmilie:
After some time, I moved from 1000D to 60D to eventually 5D2. I only started being more active when I bought the 5D2, especially to learn more techniques in landscape and architectures. For the past 7 months which I began to be active, I kept asking myself whether this amount I spend is worthwhile. It is worthwhile from a spiritual enjoyment point of view, but in the end, I want to have more value for what I own. I guess in the end there is still a part of me that wanted to use a Pentax system. There is somehow a sense of simplicity without so many lenses to choose from. I pondered about the standard zoom, pondered about 17-40 vs 16-35, pondered about which version of the 70-200. It is a bottomless pit.
Going from FF back to cropped may not be as common as cropped to FF, but I am hoping to continue pursuing my learning with K5, having heard a lot about the dynamic range of the camera. Besides that, the 7 fps also impressed me. I'm not a portrait shooter, other than the casual portraits during events so for that, I figured I'd let my OM-D do the job. I don't need very shallow dof anyway.
I'm still looking for a Sigma 10-20 f4-5.6. :bsmilie: I'm itching to bring it out to test once i get the lens, will post photos once i bring it out to test!