This camera has most of the features of the K5 in a lower price bracket:
http://www.dpreview.com/previews/pentax-k-30
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PROD...entax-k30A.HTM
It has a plastic weather sealed body an no top panel LCD like in the K5,but has a steel frame,pentaprism and weatherproofing. It can use AA batteries with an adaptor.
Last edited by CAT-THE-FIFTH; 22-05-2012 at 03:41 PM.
Given that this will be well under £500 very quickly if its replacing the K-r, nice to see proper weather sealing!
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The pentaprism is the feature which is probably even more notable!!Originally Posted by TheAnimus
If this had come out three years ago I would have got one!
Hadn't even noticed that, impressive for such a low end device.
However will that make them sell compared to the features of other cameras? Probably not.
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Unfortunately camera fanboism is pretty bad!
You are right,after posting this is another forum:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...1#post21979694
Reasons NOT to buy Pentax:
1.)They have no 35MM frame body
2.)They might die in 10 years
3.)System is limited since it does not 345 lenses which most people don't care about
The last one is hilarious. K mount and lack of lenses.Jeez and these people are probably gearheads too.
FFS,this camera is £500 to £600 camera.
I can see loads of people buying £500 to £600 cameras but not expensive lenses. Just like all the D70,D80 and D90 users who use kit lenses still.
Its this ignorance which will lead to the downfall of companies like Pentax. Advertising is one thing,but when these old wives tales are propagated like Chinese Whispers the damage done is even worse.
You should read my answers(I hope u agree) - I bet they will all jump on me. It will be funny(in a sad way)!!
Oh your dead.
Let me guess they are Cannon fans? Its mostly Cannon fans who are so, erm constrained. Most people I know who really love photography would give their left nut for a special edition leica, and for nothing more than art.
Brand loyalty is silly, I mean how many stonking photos are taken with point and clicks. A friend of mine took some loverly pictures with a Nokia 710, a phone that costs £130! They are great pictures.
But anyway, just troll the guy back, where is cannons medium format offering, I'd never go on a camera system that didn't have full frame, with my crop body lenses that would be absolutely no use.
10 years is a bit much, tbh who 10 years ago would have seen the death of kodak.
And lens count? I'm sorry but the 77mm Lim, or the 16-50 DA* are great examples of glass which has nothing equal on other mounts. Not to mention the whole weather sealed thing. I do recall a coworker once commenting that he'd never heard of people using pentax, showed him some work which had just been in photo a day, guy tried to defend his comments. But ultimately thats the thing, if your eye is as like kushtibari, you'll get top photos on anything you use. So try and find something that fits.
I would have thought low price, weather sealing, and the pentaprisim would have counted for something. But unless its made out of low quality plastic, breaks whilst used inside a jeep on a glacier (yes, this happened iwth a 350D, my k20d was outside where it was -10°C colder) has a logo stamped on it they like, nothing will change in their minds.
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CAT-THE-FIFTH (23-05-2012)
Jinkies, they don't have a high end commitment, except for their brilliant medium format stuff, the fact they spank a cannon 7D in the APC-S upper end.....
Some people eh!
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I agree and if you read some of my points,the whole top end part is just halo advertising. If you want a 35MM frame camera you will need to sell your glass anyway,and I know if I bought a K30 or K5 and a 16-50MM lens I would be using if for at least three to four years trying to get good pictures!
Now,I do understand why pros might like Nikon or Canon especially for sports photography and stuff like that,but this is a flipping £500 to £600 camera! Its like saying don't buy an AMD GPU for gaming since Nvidia Pro cards have 80% of the supercomputer compute market.
I had a Pentax Optio 450 many moons ago,and it was a fantastic camera when it came to image quality. People have seen some of the shots and were surprised it came from a 4MP compact.
I still think that my Canon S60 and S95 were not as good at base ISO. They would have been Pentax cameras if they had not left that part of the market!!
Last edited by CAT-THE-FIFTH; 23-05-2012 at 12:16 AM.
Now,the D7000 is a nice camera but look at the price:
http://www.dixons.co.uk/gbuk/nikon-d...timqw&istBid=t
£850 body online,but £770 with cashback.
Nikon 17-55MM/F2.8:
http://www.jacobsdigital.co.uk/p-379...x?sku=0117066&
£1065
These are the cheapest prices I can find.
Pentax K5:
http://www.bristolcameras.co.uk/p-pentax-k-5-body.htm
£659 but £609 with cashback
16-50MM/F2.8:
http://www.wexphotographic.com/buy-p...rce=googlebase
£625 and is wider than the Nikon lens.
So,the Nikon "investment" costs £1835 and the Pentax combination costs £1234. That is a £601 difference which is enough to buy a Sigma 150-500MM lens for £599:
http://www.srsmicrosystems.co.uk/492...er=Froogle.csv
Pentax have the full gamut of lenses and plenty of third party lenses available for them too.
How many sodding lenses do people need,as opposed to just want??
If they are that worried about equipment depreciation,then they should be trying to take good pictures and sell them to defer the cost of their investment.
The Pentax could depreciate worse than the Nikon but still not cost you any more. The Pentax could loss half its value and cost you £600,and the Nikon could loss only one third and still cost you the same. Yet you still need to stump up £600 more.
But,TBH I can see a good photographer doing good work easily with the Pentax setup,basically since you could have two decent lenses for the same price as the Nikon.
Alternatively,£600 would get you a top end tripod or even pay for a decent screen and calibrator,or a good printer. That would even cover a copy of Adobe CS6.
Last edited by CAT-THE-FIFTH; 23-05-2012 at 01:00 AM.
How many more lenses do most people need??
Here is the K mount lens range on the Pentax website:
http://www.pentax.co.uk/en/system-kb-zoom.html
smc DA 10-17 mm / 3,5~4,5 ED (IF) Fisheye
smc DA 12-24 mm / 4,0 ED AL(IF)
smc DA 14 mm / 2,8 ED (IF)
smc DA 15mm f/4 ED AL Limited
smc DA 16-45 mm / 4,0 ED AL
smc DA* 16-50mm F2.8 ED AL (IF) SDM
smc DA 17-70mm f/4.0 AL (IF) SDM
smc DA 18-55mm II f/3.5-5.6 ED AL (IF)
smc DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AL WR
smc DA 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 ED AL [IF] DC WR
smc DA 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3
smc DA 21mm f/3.2 AL Limited
DA 21mm f/3.2 AL Limited Silver
smc FA 31 / 1,8 AL Limited
smc DA 35mm f/2.4 AL
smc DA 35mm f/2.8 macro
DA 40mm F/2.8 XS
smc DA 40 mm / 2,8 Limited
DA 40mm f/2.8 Limited Silver
smc FA 43 mm / 1,9 Limited
smc DA 50mm F/1.8
smc DFA 50mm / 2.8 Macro
smc DA* 50-135mm F2.8 ED (IF) SDM
smc DA 50-200mm f/4-5.6 ED
smc DA 50-200mm f/4.0-5.6 ED WR
smc DA* 55mm f/1.4 SDM
smc DA 55-300mm f/4.0-5.8 ED
smc DA 60-250 f/4.0 ED (IF) SDM
smc DA 70mm f/ 2.4 AL Limited
DA 70mm f/2.4 Limited Silver
smc FA 77 mm / 1,8 Limited
smc DFA 100 mm / 2.8 Macro
smc D-FA 100 mm f/2,8 Macro WR
smc DA* 200mm f/2.8 ED(IF) SDM
smc DA* 300mm f/4.0 ED (IF) SDM
The only lenses which I see are missing are some very wide aperture lenses,ie, F1.4 ones,a telephoto over 400MM and specialist stuff like tilt-shift. However,this is not relevant to all photographers though. On top of this there are a whole load of older KAF lenses which should work and loads of independent lenses which will fill in the blanks too. The K mount has been around for decades.
However,even then for the vast majority of people,the Pentax themselves have a big enough range of lenses anyway.
So I don't understand the logic of why a K30 is not a good buy at £500 to £600 when there are enough decent lenses available for the system.
Edit!!
Now,I do not have anything against camera companies(it seems weird TBH),but it interested me to see what Nikon offers.
Here is the list of Nikon lenses(the list has many repeated lenses):
http://www.cameralabs.com/lenses/Nik..._listing.shtml
A few of them seem to be older legacy lenses which are probably not used that much any more and a number of them exist to service the 35MM frame sized sensor cameras which means they are irrelevant to most of their customers,unlike,in the film days and many of them are older designs from that era.
DX lenses
AF DX Fisheye 10.5mm f/2.8G ED
AF-S DX 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED
AF-S DX 12-24mm f/4G IF-ED
AF-S DX 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR
AF-S DX 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
AF-S DX 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
AF-S DX 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
AF-S DX 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
AF-S DX 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED
AF-S DX VR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VRII
AF-S DX VR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED
AF-S DX 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED
AF-S DX 35mm f/1.8G
AF-S DX 55-200mm f/4-5.6G ED
AF-S DX VR 55-200mm f/4-5.6G ED
AF-S DX VR Micro 85mm f/3.5G ED
So that is 16 DX lenses.
Non-DX lenses
AF-S 14-24mm f/2.8G ED
AF-S 16-35mm f/4G ED VR
AF-S 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
AF 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5D IF-ED
AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
AF 24-85mm f/2.8-4D IF
AF-S VR 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED
AF-S 28-70mm f/2.8D IF-ED
AF 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G
AF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5D
AF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED
AF 35-70mm f/2.8D
AF 70-300mm f/4-5.6G
AF-S VR 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VRII
AF-S VR 70-200mm f/2.8G IF-ED
AF-S VR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED
AF 80-200mm f/2.8D ED
AF VR 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6D ED
AF-S VR 200-400mm f/4G IF-ED
AF 14mm f/2.8D ED
AF Fisheye 16mm f/2.8D
AF 18mm f/2.8D
AF 20mm f/2.8D
AF-S 24mm f/1.4G ED
AF 24mm f/2.8D
AF 28mm f/2.8D
AF 35mm f/2D
AF 50mm f/1.4D
AF 50mm f/1.8D
AF 85mm f/1.4D IF
AF 85mm f/1.8D
AF DC 105mm f/2D
AF DC 135mm f/2D
AF 180mm f/2.8D IF-ED
AF-S 200mm f/2G IF-ED VR
AF-S 300mm f/2.8G IF-ED VR
AF-S 300mm f/2.8G ED VR II
AF-S 300mm f/4D IF-ED
AF-S 400mm f/2.8D IF-ED II
AF-S 400mm f/2.8G ED VR
AF-S 500mm f/4G ED VR
AF-S 500mm f/4D IF-ED II
AF-S 600mm f/4G ED VR
AF-S 600mm f/4D IF-ED II
AF Micro 60mm f/2.8D
AF-S Micro 60mm f/2.8G ED
AF-S VR Micro 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED
AF Micro 200mm f/4D IF-ED
PC Micro 85mm f/2.8D
PC-E 24mm f3.5D ED
52 non-DX lenses and many of them seem to be older legacy designs from the 1980s and 1990s.
The vast majority of people will be buying the DX lenses listed,and some of the FX primes listed,ie,the 50MM and maybe the macro lenses.
Most of the FX telephotos are for pros and cost silly money(irrelevant to most dSLR owners due to cost and weight),loads of the zooms were kit lenses for 35MM film bodies(irrelevant now),many have been superceded by DX lenses and newer FX lenses(probably made to order now) and the rest are for FX bodies and some are very specialist lenses. Very few people would buy many of those lenses for DX bodies any more.
I never thought camera E-PEEN existed?
Last edited by CAT-THE-FIFTH; 23-05-2012 at 02:04 AM.
Not to mention, when a camera system dies the prices for your used equipment go UP so it costs you less to move to another system.
I've been caught by Olympus' move to micro 4/3rds, so my E620 was the second to last camera in the old 4/3rds format. End result is if I want to move systems I can sell my gear for more than I paid for it new! I'm not wanting for any more kit either - I think people buying lenses on the off chance they will move to full frame in the future are compromising themselves both now and for when they move.
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I agree kalniel and TheAnimus and TBH when you buy a camera,who should go with what suits you the best and try to get the best out of it.
Now the veiled insults have started - it seems I am warped!!Now,I do think I might have a warped sense of humour(
) but it seems more like Nikon 35MM
frame dSLR fans. Seems the K30 offers no useful features to make them recommend it and they ignore most of the points I am trying to make. But selective reading is a useful trait methinks.
Funny!! Even photo.net is much better than this - seems more like the dpreview forums if you ask me.
I still don't get what a £500 to £600 cameras has to do with a D700 or D800,when most people who would buy a D90 or D5100 wouldn't even think of such a camera.
On top of this,I still don't understand why people on forums can't realise that the vast majority of dSLR sales are to Joe and Jane Bloggs,are under £700 and people are not likely to be buying many lenses anyway.
Most will keep the kit lenses,or buy Sigma or Tamron lenses since they are cheaper and if they upgrade they will need to ditch what they have anyway especially due to product segmentation.
How many of them will still use jpegs or own something like Photoshop CS4,CS5 or CS6??
The most common lenses I can see are:
1.)Std kit wide angle zoom - cheap(APS-C)
2.)Std kit telephoto zoom - cheap(APS-C)
3.)Superzoom -more expensive(APS-C)
4.)50MM lens - cheap(35MM)
5.)Maybe a Macro - more expensive(APS-C or 35MM)
This is hardly an investment in lenses,as the first three are very common,and why even cameras upto D7000 level have kits with superzooms. Even the auto all singing,all dancing modes exist for ease of use too.
Even video modes and live view existed for people moving up from compacts,not advanced amateurs and pros. Most of them hated it with a passion when these were first released.
Most buyers won't care about 35MM lenses anymore,let alone be bothered to know. Maybe the alternate attitude is a holdover from the film days with some people. With lower segmentation,it made sense - get a cheaper body and spend more on the lens. You could then upgrade the body and keep the lens for ages.
However,this is not the case anymore.
So,I don't understand why anyone would think buying an SLR outside of a Nikon or Canon is a bad idea,if the product is good?
Last edited by CAT-THE-FIFTH; 23-05-2012 at 08:08 PM.
Brand snobbery rules a lot of people.
I was out the other day taking some pics when I went past a couple of guys set up with bottom end Canon kit and a couple of cheap tripods. They looked at the top of my camera as I went past, saw the Pentax logo and bloody nearly sneered. I had the DA*60-250 attached which is an absolute belter of a lens and it was on a Gitzo tripod and Kirk ballhead. All they saw was the Pentax name and they just dismissed it. I joined a photography club this year and most members did the same when they saw I used Pentax. Didn't matter that the picture that won best image of the year was taken by my old K-x.
I read all the reviews before going Pentax with the K-x. I've no regrets at all. They are perfect for my needs. Maybe if I wanted to print huge or needed better autofocus for sports it might be different. I think the K-30 has a lot going for it. If thats the K-r replacement I can't wait to see what the K-5 replacement is.
CAT-THE-FIFTH (23-05-2012)
I knew you had a Pentax,but your pictures were done on a K-X?? Wow!!
I agree - I feel sorry for companies like Pentax. They make excellent cameras and excellent lenses and even price them lower than the competition in many cases. Many reviewers praise them too and these people have tried the competition too. Despite,this people are worried more about the brand.
You can see the responses in the other thread - they are more worried it is a Pentax and yet none of them have really bothered to actually look at the previews posted,instead having a go at the company.
They are more worried about what will happen in 10 years,than the useability now.
I think in many cases camera snobbery is even worse than Intel/AMD/Nvidia fanboism. If the FX8150 had been as fast or faster than a Core i5 for gaming and cheaper,I suspect many people would have gone out and bought one instead of a Core i5. Nobody would care if AMD was smaller than Intel or was less profitable.
Last edited by CAT-THE-FIFTH; 23-05-2012 at 05:22 PM.
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