wow....my pentax k-1 money suddenly got frozen!!
Yep, same here! Here's an excerpt of what I just posted at the 'other' forum:
D750 owner and long time Nikon user here... not too deep in Nikkor glass. The 50 1.4G, the 24-120, and two old manual lenses I grabbed from KEH. I really do love my D750 and have had a blast shooting with it.
Increasingly, I was getting frustrated by the output. Don't ask me how or why, but I started to get into shooting church artwork and iconography. Guess I walked into a dark church one day to test my D750's low light focusing and ISO, grabbed some incredible shots and got hooked. But again, was becoming increasingly more particular as I improved my technique and peeped the final output.
Which led me to Sigma, which I had flirted with the last few years.
After doing the Merrill or Quattro tango for awhile, I settled on the DP2Q. And I love it. I knew the caveats going -- SPP is hog slow, don't shoot over ISO 100, tripod, no OVF, etc. I'm a tripod shooter anyway, have a fast MBP, so the caveats didn't scare me away. I've been loving my DP2Q the last few months and haven't touched my Nikon.
But the Quattro's shortcomings have irked me, which are different than the D750's. The recent Quattro firmware update improved things, but it's left me wanting a better, more robust solution than the Quattros... even though I've been VERY tempted, I've held off on getting a DP0Q.
So... here comes the Pentax K-1 a few days back and I think perfect, my wait is over. K-1 it is!
And now this... damn you, Sigma. Seriously. I was going to invest in some Art lenses for my Nikon anyway, so buying some Sigma glass isn't a downside for me.
My pennies were already saved for a K-1, thinking Sigma had nothing to offer. Boy, was I wrong.
I have a lot of long, hard thinking to do. I'm probably leaning Quattro-H 51%/49% vs the K-1 at this point. I really want Pentax's pixel shift and in-body shake reduction, but their lens lineup concerns me.
Probably the only thing keeping me from buying the Q-H is price. If it's under $2000 USD, I'm in. If it's more, then I'll go K-1. My concern, based on their history, is that Sigma will price this too high. I hope they have the balls to play rough with Pentax on price.