I have an existing Pentax film SLR system and have been holding off for months buying a DSLR waiting for an Ist D successor. Key reason for buying is I have a 1 year old child and I want to capture her childhood and infancy so I can't go on hanging around waiting forever for Pentax to make an Ist d successor.
Options are currently:
Buy Ist DS2 from USA - £450 body only and couple it with the 16-45 Pentax zoom £250 (I need to add VAT/duty on these figures so reckon I'm going to be looking at £800 minimum
Buy Ist DS from Jessups - £490 including 18-55mm Pentax zoom. Annoying you can't get the Ist DS2 in the UK as I'd like the bigger screen. I guess if I want to upgrade the kit lens at a later date I could.
The other option is to wait up to another couple of months in case a DS3 or D2 emerges. I note that the Samsung GX-1S has been announced at PMA but it's just an Ist DS2 in drag and I'd rather have Pentax on my SLR body thanks very much. I presume that if Pentax were due to announce anything other than the DL2 at PMA we'd know by now???
Views anyone? Incidentally we have been using my wife's Finepix 4800 to capture our little girl's baby days but it's only 3 megapixels and the shutter lag is so great that she's usually moved out of frame by the time the shutter fires! The flash also seems to take about 10 secs to recharge between shots and I really miss the chance to use a responsive camera - the Finepix just annoys me really!
Would really value some input - if I buy now and Pentax launch a much improved range next month I will be disappointed though.
I have an existing Pentax film SLR system and have been holding off for months buying a DSLR waiting for an Ist D successor. Key reason for buying is I have a 1 year old child and I want to capture her childhood and infancy so I can't go on hanging around waiting forever for Pentax to make an Ist d successor.
Options are currently:
Buy Ist DS2 from USA - £450 body only and couple it with the 16-45 Pentax zoom £250 (I need to add VAT/duty on these figures so reckon I'm going to be looking at £800 minimum
Buy Ist DS from Jessups - £490 including 18-55mm Pentax zoom. Annoying you can't get the Ist DS2 in the UK as I'd like the bigger screen. I guess if I want to upgrade the kit lens at a later date I could.
The other option is to wait up to another couple of months in case a DS3 or D2 emerges. I note that the Samsung GX-1S has been announced at PMA but it's just an Ist DS2 in drag and I'd rather have Pentax on my SLR body thanks very much. I presume that if Pentax were due to announce anything other than the DL2 at PMA we'd know by now???
Views anyone? Incidentally we have been using my wife's Finepix 4800 to capture our little girl's baby days but it's only 3 megapixels and the shutter lag is so great that she's usually moved out of frame by the time the shutter fires! The flash also seems to take about 10 secs to recharge between shots and I really miss the chance to use a responsive camera - the Finepix just annoys me really!
Would really value some input - if I buy now and Pentax launch a much improved range next month I will be disappointed though.
Views?
Jonathan