What is "bashing" anyway?

I got into Pentax purely because of the impression I got when I was researching the various forums in late 2008. The overriding impression I got? The forums that had Pentax had guys / gals taking photos and talking about their photos and how they did it. The other brands seemed more about this body or that body matched with this lens or that lens. It is the same on Pentaxforums, I normally hang out in the photo areas and keep away from the kit debates (saying that I am a fully confirmed lens nut :))

The success of the K-5 in 2010/1? seemed to dilute the hard core of Pentaxian's that just wanted to chew the fat about photography as we got an influx of other photographers from other brands as it was the cropped DSLR to have at the time even though it too had a few weaknesses (AF under changeable lighting, Sensor stains, floppy mirror) - and we also lost a lot of Pentaxian's to the FF cause.

Ref the bashing that goes on here, you have the Canon / Nikon users who are pretty confident in themselves as they are the big 2 and can and will always slap down a Pentax camera because of the lens range or flash capability - you also have the pretty vocal mirrorless scene - Sony, Fuji, Olympus who truly believe that their cameras make anything with an optical viewfinder obsolete. They are of course entitled to their opinion and may well be right but they also seem to have users that jump between brands quite frequently and probably rarely truly learn the true capabilities of the camera they have.

Where I do draw the line is when a person from another camera brand starts slagging off the FA Limited's :D, that is not on. 20 years on and they are still marvels of design with fantastic rendering capabilities but which will probably not 'test' very well. I think it is sad that anytime a lens is mentioned these days the first and only description is how sharp is it? Any focal length for a given sensor size can be made to be sharp, it depends on how much glass and size you are willing to throw at the design - witness the Zeiss Otus range or the Sigma ART range. Humongous lens designs that even have sharp bokeh

I do try to refrain from feeding the trolls but every now and again (say 3 or 4 times in the last 5 years) I will correct an idiot.

S!

Robbie