{"id":27827,"date":"2012-11-09T21:15:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T20:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/?p=27827"},"modified":"2012-11-09T21:15:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T20:15:31","slug":"dropping-pentax-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/the-gear\/dropping-pentax-rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"My Dropping Pentax Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27828\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27828\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/k5-grip.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27828\" title=\"k5-grip\" src=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/k5-grip-560x512.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pentax K5 and Grip<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>As I have been getting a lot of people asking if I have dropped using Pentax, the answer is no I have not.<\/strong> \u00a0I am still using Pentax for most of the shoots I do and specifically for all of my past fashion editorials which have been snapped with my K5&#8217;s and video&#8217;d with the Pentax K-01&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There you have it&#8230;<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27830\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27830\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Pentax-K-01-Group-Right-640x454.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27830\" title=\"Pentax-K-01-Group-Right-640x454\" src=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Pentax-K-01-Group-Right-640x454-560x397.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pentax K-01<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have been getting a lot of people asking if I have dropped using Pentax, the answer is no I have not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[168],"tags":[718,36,24],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paG8MM-7eP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12474,"url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/bkblog\/the-benjamin-kanarek-blog-2010-camera-awards\/","url_meta":{"origin":27827,"position":0},"title":"The Benjamin Kanarek Blog 2010 Camera Awards","author":"Benjamin Kanarek","date":"December 27, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Well can you believe it?\u00a0 It feels like yesterday when we had our first \"The Benjamin Kanarek Blog 2009 Camera Awards\" contest! 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