Folks who moved from Pentax to Nikon FF: do you miss your limiteds?

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fakuryu
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Re: Folks who moved from Pentax to Nikon FF: do you miss your limiteds?
In reply to MrSkelter, 6 months ago

MrSkelter wrote:

viking79 wrote:

debo wrote:

For those who moved from Pentax to Nikon FF: are you happy without your FA limiteds? Apart from the limiteds, I dont know what I will miss. Hence the thread. Dont want to sound like a troll but I am an amateur, adore my FA limiteds and love low light photos with thin DoF. The D600+50/1.4 looks attractive.

BTW: have been more than happy with my Kx + primes ... but I often think I either need a more compact APSC system like the Fuji 35/1.4 + body or a FF/prime combo ...

The only problem with Nikon is everyone has the same lenses, that isn't a big deal, but you don't get as unique of a look.

You're being unfair. Nikon's F-mount has the largest range of native (i.e. adaptor free) compatible lenses of any system.

Many people here - and this is hardly a representative group - fetishize the 2.8 zooms. The so-called Holy Trinity" of 12-24, 24-70 and 70-200.

However there are people like myself who shoot primes exclusively.

The 1.4 primes are better than the 1.8's though the price difference is significant. If you don't need the speed the 1.8's are excellent.

Nikon's 24 1.4g is arguably the best lens at that length on any system and the 200 f2 is simply one of the best lenses ever made. It's also $6K.

IMHO saying that the 24mm 1.4g is the best lens at any lenght on any system is arguable. Pentax also has a claim to that with the FA31, FA43, FA77, DA21, DA40, DA70.

Then there are the lenses from Canon, Leica, Zeiss etc etc

The 85mm f1.4 is nice but not enough to be 3x expensive against its f1.8 brother.

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Edited 6 months ago by fakuryu
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