100 mm macro:

3d video.
Then Swiss Army and survivor man will issue a hybrid video/still/survival tool handycam.

when do you plan on expanding into Canada?

50 1.4, 100 macro, 16-45
covers 90% of our portrait shots.

That is why it never bothered me! Finally it makes sense!.
I'm to dumb to do math..... I stick whatever on the camera to get the shot!

I guess the difference for me (I wasn't trying to be argumentative, but clearly I was, so sorry for that) is I buy cameras for two reasons... to work with and because I like them.

I just see a good camera that happens to be more cost effective because my old lenses work well.

I just don't see the downside to my digital workflow.

Pentax wants to impress me, ff isn't the way to go.... bring out a sister model to the k5..... call it the k5v...
ditch the sr if need be, add a pelicile mirror, BIG heat sink on the sensor, articulated flip out lcd with touch screen.... and dual card slots and make it primarily a video camera.... able to record an hour or two with no issues.
that sony nex g10 would be soooooo sweet if it came from Pentax with the standard k-mount....

back in the medium format film days... there came along a point where 35mm lenses had more resolving power than the best medium format lenses, and combined with film advances, pro 35 lenses and film were matching medium format for print quality up to 20x30........
to this day there are those that argue hassleblad prints were better than 35mm....

I used to crop images from my mz5 square when sending in to a certain mag that publishes me a few times...
their image requirements stated medium format only. They never once asked about my camera.

Sometimes the only real difference is: if you believe it's better, then it must be better.

I like obsessive people.
They get things done.
Need somebody to wash your floors? Hire straight from the Looney Bin, you have not seen a clean floor until you've seen OCD clean!


"Must scrub the floor, scrub the floor, scrub the floor, or spiders will eat my baby, scrub the floor, scrub the floor, scrub the floor."

he may have retired due to intellectual property rights, non compete clauses etc.. one guy defected to Nikon..

but try to put this into perspective...

It is the equivalent of firing a lab tech or printer after everything switched to computers, his skills are obsolete.

nowadays you need a kid that can work with the best computer design software, using science to design..
why pay an old school designer senior engineering wages to work on electronics and cad programs?
When you get a kid straight out of university with more directly applicable skills at a fraction of the cost?

I buy manfrotto.... my wife, giottos....
a knob and a foot fell off my wifes three year old giottos...
never had that problem with my 18 yr old manfrotto...