To KP, or not to KP, that is the question.

Historicity wrote:

User8678439070 wrote:

Historicity wrote:

User8678439070 wrote:

mxx wrote:

Happy shooting with your new toy and that versatile lens!

I've been enjoying the K-70 and the 18-135 WR very much. Here is a shot with both:

Nice shot. I didn't struggle quite as much as you did over whether to choose the K-70 or the KP. I had other Pentax cameras and the fact that the K-70 resembled them and had a similar layout influenced me. Also, when I compared the two in terms of the features I used, I discovered I didn't really need the features the KP had the the K-70 didn't -- not that there were that many. I also like the 18-135 -- a lot.

Lawrence

Lawrence - glad to hear that you have a similar experience. As for struggling with the decision - yes, I do tend to overthink things sometimes, being an engineer for almost 40 years probably has something to do with that. And I find that I like the 18-135 much more than I anticipated. I was a bit disappointed that it seemed quite heavy (about as heavy as the 18-55 and 50-200 lenses combined) when I first got it, but in practice the image results are so much better and the longer range compared with the 18-55 is so useful that I've just been keeping it on the camera. I haven't gone out in the field with it yet, though, so we'll see.

8678439070 -- one more similar experience: I started in Douglas engineering in 1959 -- Douglas merged with McDonnell -- Boeing bought out McDonnell Douglas -- I retired from Boeing engineering at the end of 1998: "almost 40 years." I don't know if I overthink this, but maybe. If you read my note in November where I'm wrestling over whether to buy a K-1 or perhaps wait for the K-1 Mark II or the K3 Mark III, you might say that was quite a bit of overthinking.

Lawrence

Lawrence - You're a bit ahead of me, I'm not retiring yet for a few years.  My youngest is learning to be an aerospace engineer at Purdue, he has a couple years to go.  Maybe he'll follow in your footsteps if he is lucky!  I couldn't interest my kids in my discipline, which is chemical engineering.