As someone who is always out checking out cameras and looking for cool old stuff especially on ebay or craigslist, I keep seeing people selling some nice Pentax film camera systems. Some of these people might have 3 or 4 lenses.
Often, I see someone say. “I’m selling this to go digital” or “This would be a great student camera”
Craziness, I say.
I know, I’ve been guilty of extolling the virtues of some new Nikon or Canon gear, but I can’t imagine people just dumping a perfectly good Pentax system to go digital. But then again, I like film and digital.
I wonder why people don’t take those lenses and use them on a new Pentax digital body if they want a digital body. Pentax has made some really nice glass. Why go spend all the money to switch systems?
Maybe some of them are going to digital point and shoot cameras. I don’t know.
The Pentax K-7 is a very capable camera. Check it out before you go dumping that nice old gear. You might like it.
K-7 Video Samples
K-7 Moving Picture Sample
