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Originally Posted by Ivas
If you're considerin' serious photography, cost is an issue. Lenses often cost much more than the camera body.
There are two companies that are within ballpark figures: Pentax and Nikon (not the exotic Contax/Leica line) that maintain the same lens mount configuration decade after decade. Others, like Cannon, force customers to buy entirely new lenses to fit their latest cameras' lens mounts.
Of the two, I've opted for the Pentax. It is somewhat lower in cost than Nikon, and is just as reliable. My super simple non-battery reliant K-1000 has gotten me through some messes outside the country where spare parts and batteries are laughably unavailable. All was well, it's too plain too fail.
The top-end features are also Pentax made in abundance. Have fun with your acquisitions, they'll do you right, for sure.
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I fully agree, it definitely costs to play with the big boys. However, much like anything else, gear is only 10% of the equation! Practice and knowledge are the other 90%. Kind of like giving Tiger Woods some 1940s clubs, he will still be tiger woods!
I am not sure what the last part of your post was about, but I hope you didn't take something I said the wrong way. I meant no disrespect or anything man! Sorry if something came off the wrong way.