Originally posted by Dan Rentea There are no suprises. K1 has very good image quality at low ISO and also at high ISO, with a mettering system a little "outdated" that makes high ISO images taken in dificult conditions to look a little on the green side, at least when comes to skintones (nothing that can't be solved in PS or Lightroom however).
There are no suprises for people like you that have already done some real life comparisons. For me it was a big surprise considering the generation gap between D850 and the K-1 for example. I don't want to elaborate because I don't have any intention to influence members in here or other users in general, but I'm happy with my decisions so far and it is always nice to see it. FYI I was shooting (for the kind of things I do) with my K-1 + DFA 150-450 along with D850 + Sigma 150-600S and 5DIV + Canon 100-400 II. As you very well said we are talking about slight differencies but I'm printing mostly very big (0,5m * 1m di-bonds being my smaller prints), where the quality of the RAW file is evident.
Originally posted by Dan Rentea It's nice that they focused on improving image quality (which is already very good) with this K1 Mark II, but (and there is a big but here) it's strange that they didn't updated USB 2.0 port for tethering and file transfer, the USH-3 slot card and the buffer clearing time. I don't know if they simply don't have the budget or they are not interested in anything related to focus capabilities and file transfer.
I don't disagree. Given that what has leaked is true this is a focus on IQ. There are many other sectors where K-1 lacks behind competition, but when you know why you are shooting such a camera and what to expect, the IQ improvement is equally important to some photographers! I'm one of them. And if I see an improvement in IQ like the step from K-5 to K-5IIs I think the K-1 will become my 2nd body and I won't wait for the next APS-C. But as I said, this is just me.