Originally posted by biz-engineer Strange. In the past you said that you couldn't rent and try Pentax gear and Romania and explain that was the reason why you switched to Canon.
Did you read what I wrote?
I couldn't and I still can't rent a Pentax in Romania because no store is renting Pentax. I said that we have a Pentax official store where I can go to see Pentax products, but they barelly let you touch them. That's why I said that I need gloves to put my hands on cameras or lenses. Renting and shooting it's completely different than puting your hands on a camera for 3-5 minutes, without taking any shots with it.
Originally posted by biz-engineer Anyway, printing concerns less than 10% of ILC camera users, and ILC camera users are less than 10% of the population, so it's less than 1% of people who occasionally print something , for the 99% of the population, 4K and a smartphone is the maximum needed to display on OLEDs. An apsc camera with 24Mpixels has more resolution than 4K, is indeed more than good enough for more than 99% of the population who view photographs on electronic displays. IMHO, for apsc cameras, we don't need more than 4K (2160x3840) pixels, but auto-focus and burst rate are very important specs, because customers want to take a lot of pictures. High burst rate is nice to have for spray and pray approach. Last but least, it's possible to create bokeh with software, digitally, and add artificial details with and replace / transform photographs with AI software. Basically, it's common practice to take portrait shots in a studio with a green backdrop, and then replace the green backdrop in software, after background replacement the subject edges at a little weird mix of pixels from the old and new background but you can't see it on a smartphone display or computer screen, so it's all good. Photoshop skills are more important than ever.
Printing large at high ISO it's not that common and that's why an accelerator unit won't hurt the printing process. So, even if the accelerator has some visible impact in images at ISO 640 and above, it doesn't affect the ones printing at the largest dimmensions that a K-1 II can offer maximum quality. I don't get it... you want to print large or not? Because each time you increase the ISO you can't print anymore as large as you say you want.
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Originally posted by Rondec Personally, if I think I want a particular piece of gear -- glass or body --- it makes more sense to purchase it from an online reseller with a good return policy. It just often is 5 percent of the new price of the item new to rent it for a week. The only way I would do it is if it is a specialty item that I don't think I want to use long term -- say, I am going on a safari and want a 150-450 specifically for that trip, but probably don't want to actually purchase that lens.
I rent 4-6 time a year a 300mm f2.8 for some situations where I know I have the chance to shoot a bird or animal that's hard to get. It's 60$ for 2 days. It's also 7000$ to buy it.
I rent 100mm f2.8L macro lens for shooting dentistry implant surgeries. I have a collaboration with a dentist and I shoot for him 4-6 surgeries/year. It's 15$ to rent the lens and it's 1000$ to buy it.
I rent 28-70mm f2 when I have a corporate event where I can't use flash and where I have to stay just in one place in order not to disturb the speakers. It costs 60$ to rent it and 3000$ to buy it. I shoot with primes (35mm and 85mm) for lots of reasons but for 1 out of 8 events I have to stay in one place and it's easier to get the job done with a zoom in those cases.
I've rented a 11-24mm f4 lens when I had to shoot an entire mall. I paid 60$ to rent it. It costs 2000$+ to buy it...
It's true that I own/buy the lenses I need in 85% of the situations, but I've earned around 4000$ with rented lenses for which I paid around 300$.
For me, renting it's Heaven.