Originally posted by Serkevan Oh come on Norm.
DA 55-300 PLM on K-1 at 300mm.
At 300mm it's fine with some light cropping and the lens works wonders, but at 100mm it's
kinda not as good. It's basically a 55-70 plus 150ish-300mm lens
Where we going?
I almost always take the DA 18-135 or 21 ltd and 100 macro and 1.4 TC with it, so not an issue.
Compared to any other 300mm lens if you know you're going to be gone 19 days and cary it for 45 km, along with your other gear, the DA 55-300 PLM is an absolute dream on the K-1. There's nothing that even compares, despite the limitations.
Especially since it all has to fit in the orange case and I'd really love to get my gear back into the little red one. Where are you going to find a 300 mm lens that collapses like that 300mm DA 55-300 PLM? Anyone, any company? Any time frame?
---------- Post added 02-13-21 at 02:16 PM ----------
Originally posted by Pentaxxoid Any thoughts?
You need to take some pictures, and stop messing around with charts. I determined I'd rather take my DA 55-300 PLM instead of my DA* 60-250 or DA*200 based on experience, not on sensor charts.
As for the same information, ya, same lens and same distance etc. the K-1 is 25% more lw/ph than the K-3 (K-P, K-70) SO if you frame nice and tight with the K-3, but if you have to crop 25% with the K-1, you get the same resolution from both.
IN this case, the width with the crop is 6512. The crop from a K-3 would be 6000. You lose almost nothing using the crop sensor in many real life situations, but your subject is bigger. the K-3 is 6000 width, the K-1 is 7300. It's not as much difference as you might think. It's a 22 percent increase in pixels, despite the impression created by your chart.
The issue with the K-1 is, I'd need a 450mm lens to give me what the K-3 with the 55-300 PLM does or a possibility of more resolution, and because of the denser pixels, the K-3 may give me more resolution than the K-1 could, and that is never going to happen. As long as there are issues both ways, I'm going with the lightest smallest lens.
Last edited by normhead; 02-13-2021 at 12:35 PM.