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Hi Everyone, I'd like to wish you all a Merry Christmas. I would like to ask you guys what SLR should I go for, I am leaning towards the Nikon D90 or the Pentax K7. I am in favour of Nikon because I'm used to the Nikon layout in the menu's. Can anyone help?
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Don't buy a camera purely on the specification, go along to your local camera shop and try a few and see how they feel to hold and use
 
having only used the d90 im gonna say go for that, but go to a shop and try both out, see how they will, also take into account you are buying into a brand not just a camera, nikon has a much larger 2nd hand market
 
on paper the k7 has alot more features, and the af is almost a fast as a d300 but not, as for fps there about the same the d90 and k7 both have a 11 point af system, but the k7 has a far superior build with Durable and functional body, smaller than any other in its class
The K-7 is built exceptional solid and durable, as its chassis is made of high-rigidity stainless-steel alloy and its housing is made of durable but lightweight magnesium-steel alloy. Thanks to 77 special seals applied to the body, it also features a dustproof, weather- and cold-resistant construction, assuring reliable operation even under harsh conditions and at a temperature as low as -10°C. It also features a newly designed shutter unit providing a top shutter speed of 1/8000 second and the outstanding durability to withstand 100,000 shutter releases. Despite all these features, the K-7 is one of the most compact and functional mid-class models in the market, because PENTAX applied all the experience and expertise in camera downsizing the company has developed from the earliest days of film-format SLR cameras,

also the k7 gas built in image stabilisation, which makes the lenses cheaper and i will say it is very good. ( i feel built in image stabilisation on the body is better than in the lens.)

but i always say go and feel for your self. my money is on the k7,
my k20d i had was almost as weel made as my nikon d300 at half the money and the k20d was more weather sealed to, the only downside to the k20d was the fps and af speed, which has improved on the k7 even more.
 
Come to a forum like this where Pentax users are a very small minority and most members have never held a K-7 and you will get told to buy the Nikon .. go to a Pentax forum and you will be told the opposite. I'm with Scott, the K-7 is a lovely camera and is better than the D90 in virtually every respect but go handle them both as specification means nothing if it feels wrong in your hands.
 
hi
having a Nikon D40 is a great starter but if only I could afford a D90...bliss

have a read "here"..............
by Ken Rockwell
 
I had a K20d and the build quality, like the K7 is immense.
Trouble is that Pentax has only a 2% market share so the availibilty of 2nd hand hand kit is very much less than Nikon or Canon.
Some 3rd party lenses do not come in Pentax fit. I actually had a Sigma 120 -40mm lens and the Pentax fit was the only one that would not accept a teleconverter!
It is such a pity that Pentax have lost so much ground.
 
Thank you all for your replies, I will be going for the Nikon.
 
arclight said:
I had a K20d and the build quality, like the K7 is immense.
Trouble is that Pentax has only a 2% market share so the availibilty of 2nd hand hand kit is very much less than Nikon or Canon.
Some 3rd party lenses do not come in Pentax fit. I actually had a Sigma 120 -40mm lens and the Pentax fit was the only one that would not accept a teleconverter!
It is such a pity that Pentax have lost so much ground.
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Yet every lens in my sig (apart from the new 55mm 1.4 and 60-250mm f4) was bought used. As for the teleconverter on a Sigma 120-400mm, first of all that is Sigmas fault, not Pentax .. they didnt check to make sure it worked correctly with their own HSM lenses and secondly I wouldn't want to put one on that lens anyway, the IQ would be terrible imo.

Pentax lost so much ground because they were complacent from their film days thinking the customer would come to them and they didnt need to market their cameras .. shows how much they knew. They now have to overcome that but their new cameras are making people look at the brand and consider them (as in this post), which can only be a good thing

The K-7 is winning a lot of awards (as did the K10D and K20D) and the new K-x (mid entry model) is better in the high ISO stakes than virtually any crop camera out there atm (as reported by Dpreview). The brand is certainly bigger in other parts of Europe when compared to the UK though.

After all that .. I have bought 4 decent Canon mount lenses in the last few months as I have been considering a 7D. :lol:
 
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