I'm mainly a studio man. I treat the cameras well most of the time, but occasionally drop them!

G

I'm up to 40 or 50 thousand on both of my D bodies. Or more. Lost count ages ago.

Both look new apart from a tiny bit of paint loss on the hot shoe. And, more importantly, they work properly - for the moment.

G

Nope. At 9,999 it goes back to one.

G

'Twill depend I suspect on the weeness of the dram.

G

Perhaps the answer is to redefine the SLR section as Pentax Film Cameras.

Or maybe the time has come to split Digital Photography into Pentax DSLRs and Digital Processing.

G

Philip Taylor wrote:

Could we please have a sub-forum specifically for Pentax DSLR cameras?

I always imagined that was what the "Digital Photography" section was for.

G

Yup, they're pretty good.

G

Various flavours of Photoshop
Bibble
DCRaw
Capture One

AND.......

Drum roll.........................

taranta ra taranta ra taranta ra ra ra

Silkypix!

G

Congratulations. I don't think you will be unhappy.

G

The 85 1.4 is a superb lens, but bigger, heavier, and more expensive than the 77. As far as optical quality is concerned, any sensible person would be happy with either.

Tests conducted on tripods on the same digital camera in a studio with studio lights would yield a more objective test thn the ones you have linked to, which IMO are completely worthless. The pictures were taken hand-held on film in daylight, then scanned. Far too many variables were involved to be able to form any judgements.

Plus, the images are tiny.

G