Originally posted by reh321 So, when did you purchase a K-1, and when do you plan to start showing images created using it with a wide angle prime lens at f/1.7 or wider?
I looked through the images posted by you in galleries and albums.
I found a lot of created images ... I'm guessing many of them are ones you copied from elsewhere.
No, I created them from scratch. I shot them, I finished them. I used Pentax DSLR for those, therefore I posted them here. I use Pentax crop DSLR as a sketching tool. So those were the sketches. I have an idea, then do some compositions which are 'roughs'. When the idea crystalises, then I use other equipment to make a final project.
Quote: The majority of them were taken using a prime lens ... the DA70! {equiv view roughly to 105mm lens mounted on K-1}
I didn't see any taken with an aperture of less than f/2.8.
I'd be a lot more impressed by this sermon if it followed a path of demonstrated use of wide angle lenses at f/1.7 or wider.
Those were done many years ago. I used Pentax short-tele prime because, as said, I prefer Pentax primes. I always advocate people to buy Pentax lenses. I did not use wide lenses at f1.7 because Pentax does not have them. For those things I use something else, but did not post because this is Pentax Forum. If Pentax comes with a 35/1.4, and it is a good lens, and if Pentax comes with interesting 85mm prime lenses for the FF, I may consider buying a K-1 or whatever DSLR they make by then.
Quote: (1) I can do it
(2) I don't like it any more than I did when I had a rangefinder camera.
I doubt you can do it. Because if you can do it properly, you would like it. You only scratch it, and retreat to a safe zone. For 35mm shooting one must too kneel down to ground, and crawl. But folks, in time, and in certain age, think it is below their dignity.