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Which Would You Do?

Started 8 months ago | Discussions thread
JeremieB Senior Member • Posts: 2,041
Re: Which Would You Do?

The Squirrel Mafia wrote:

It all depends on how much you want to spend. KAF4 lenses are pricey. The cheapest one is the DA 55-300mm PLM at about $396 at the moment. It's normally about $450. Then you jump to $1,300 to $1,900 for DA* or DFA*, FF Limited, & other FF KAF4 lenses. There are currently about 6 of them, but only 2 of them are APS-C specific. The other 4 are FF, but you can use them on the K-50.

The K-70 is still a risk, though it seems like there have been less solenoid failures so far. I personally wouldn't bother with one. I'd rather get a used K-3/3II instead. Yes. The image quality in the K-70 is fantastic, but there's always that chance of another solenoid failure later on. I will never buy another Pentax camera that uses a solenoid to control the aperture. I got burned twice with 2 K-50 bodies that were heavily used, but I fixed them myself.

You can always use older aperture type ring lenses, but manually focusing a lens through the viewfinder is pretty hard. If it had a split prism, it would be fairly easy, but if you change the screen, that might throw off the metering.

It's also not really usable with lenses having a small maximum aperture.

There is also the KP, though they're selling for too much at the moment. A used K-3/3II would be the cheapest & easiest. Hahaha!

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Pentax K-70 Pentax K-3 Mark III Pentax smc FA 50mm F1.4 Pentax smc DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL Pentax smc D-FA 100mm F2.8 Macro WR +9 more
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