>>4466032My opinion as someone who's ran his K1ii through 500 or so pics after 3 weeks?
If you're not a Pentax fanboy, you don't have any lenses you really love, you're not shooting any vintage lenses that could be improved by IBIS, and they cost the same go for the D850.
The good Pentax lenses and cameras cost more secondhand because they sold 100 of them to every Nikon. And Nikon glass is excellent. There's a lot of cheap/good F Mount lenses with VR. The K1 is honestly just a D810 with worse AF and IBIS/GPS (same sensor iirc along w/A7R). K1 AF means you'll miss static shots if you're not fast enough. My lenses might have some backfocus and I might have to correct for it which I haven't had the time to do so. I do like MTF priority, but Pentax software when shooting auto tends to trend to high ISOs, thankfully the images come out clean even at 12800 ISO.
Nikon build quality for their DSLRs is tank-like only matched by the Canon 5D series. The weathersealing on Pentaxes is only if you get a WR lens ($$$ and not too many out there) otherwise you'll have the ring around the lens as a entry point for water. Its definitely fucking huge but if you have a long enough strap it carries the weight well. My bigger problem is no silicone cases and the only company that sells a skin wrap for it is in fucking Latvia and you can't mail order anything from Europe -> USA. Nikon just has a bigger aftermarket.
That said I am a little bit of a Pentax fanboy and if you're willing to tolerate shitty glass to experiment with its cheap. I took this with a 35-70mm Kit Lens from 1989. Below are all pics I took with it. I had that or the 50mm 2.8 FA Macro (another 90s film shit lens).
I don't think I'm selling mine. I like the camera a lot. But sometimes I wonder how would my experience have been if I just stuck to Nikon and picked up a D750/D850. The $920 before tax # I quoted included a grip and 2 batteries.
>>4465794>>4465810>>4465965>>4465970 