They lost me when they assumed the two brand new windows 8 laptops I bought where touch screen. I don't want a touchscreen laptop.

I went apple and I can't see me ever going back to MS and I know a lot of ex win 8 users who have done the same. I've seen the light and like being productive on my Mac rather than constantly being nagged about Ms updates all the time and security updates on what seemed to be a weekly basis.

I owned a second hand 50-135mm for approx 5 years and apart from the mount snapping and needing a repair by JPS (returned win 10 days) I never had an sdm failure. I also owned the 16-50 for nearly two years again purchased used and never had any issues with that either

My nikon 85mm 1.8 didn't af out the box and was returned to me twice by nikon with no fault found despite not working in my d600 or d7000 eventually they replaced all the af internals and it came back working nearly 10 weeks without that lens.

My sigma 100-300mm f/4 was repaired within two weeks by sigma.

I do use my lenses on a daily basis and wonder how many pentax sdm failures are due to not being regularly used.

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On the k-5 mkii I found various Metz flashes to be hit and miss with exposure even the same scene repeatedly resulted in different exposures.

For a wedding I would choose the pentax just to reduce these errors occurring.

Enjoy the shoot

Whilst the p-ttl may have improved with the k-3 before that it was dreadfully unreliable.

Back to the FF pentax needs FF to remain a genuine competitor to the other brands. Not just for FF sales but as inspiration for entry level togs. How many togs on this forum including myself have outgrown the Pentax brand and moved on To other brands.

If pentax do make an FF body i know it will be a fantastic piece of kit, but the timescale is going against it now.

As for Sony I know a large number of videographers are moving from 5d mk3 to Sony A7 bodies, I have also met a couple of Sony togs at the festivals this year. The top two brands are being slowly eroded away by Sony and Fuji it's a shame Pentax aren't also making a dent into these markets as they should be doing. The whole camera market is really fragmenting at the moment.

Surely third party manufacturers will be very happy for you to swap systems which they do support.

I don't keep laptops longer than two years and I have applecare which increases the warranty to three years and I would still take a MacBook Pro over a windows laptop any day windows 8 and 8.1 killed my buy in into the windoze system.

I haven't repaired or upgraded a laptop for donkeys years, I saw through that waste of time a long time ago too. I got fed up with the whole upgrade repairing pc, I spent more time tinkering than being productive and I would much rather be productive

Apart from the icons I like it.

My favourite upgrade is being able to answer my phone with the MBP hands free. An amazing piece of software...

I love my macbook. I was so anti apple for so long and resistant to the whole apple thing.

I had to contact apple at the weekend with a small problem I had with Yosemite. I logged a call online they called me back within a minute and problem was solved within 15 mins.

It's so easy to look at the price of a laptop and think wow that's expensive but with backup like that apple can take all my money.....

The da 50-200mm is just too slow for this kind no of work, you would be better with a da* 200mm which will give you faster focus speed and the advantage of a 2.8 aperture which will increase shutter speed whilst looking wearing ISO.

High speed action at ISO 6400 on Pentax is not going to look the best, on my k-5 mkii I hardly ever went above ISO 2000 as the noise was just too much..