Originally posted by rrstuff Wait, I thought you went all canon, save for K5II and a fisheye?
Well I didn't go "ALL" Canon.
And what Canon I did go, didn't work out so well. Making big prints (30x40, 40x60, cropped 16x48's) kinda shows you the limitations of your system pretty fast.
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Originally posted by Paul the Sunman Was there any wind? That shot with so much foliage would not normally be suitable for pixel shift if there's a breeze.
I agree. But this wasn't a "grab" shot. I have driven the 250 miles one way three times in the past 6 weeks. The first time was to find the shot on a non windy SUNNY day. I found the shot, but the sun killed it. The next time was on a forecast cloudy day with no wind, and the 6D got the shot as well as it could. Yesterday I went back and left at 6am MDT to be there by 9am PDT because the forecast was for AM clouds, no wind.
So far I have spent 3 days and over $200 in diesel just for this shot. And sometimes that's what it takes. The point I'm trying to make is that what I have realized is that the majority of my best selling landscape shots could have been shot with pixel shift with the proper planning required to get the shot anyway. There are very few spectacular landscape shots by anyone that have been shot in a hurricane! (Or even a slight breeze.
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Originally posted by pathdoc One does have to allow for the possibility that the light on the day favoured the Pentax, but WOW. What a difference. How washed out and lifeless that Canon shot looks by comparison.
If the full-frame comes anywhere near this, the landscape photographers are going to be all over it. Come on, Pentax - we really want that DA15-like full-frame prime now.
It's not even that fair: The Canon 6D had a $1000 Canon 24-70 F4.0 L lens on it and the K3 was using a $450 well worn Tamron 17-50 F2.8.
I actually ordered the Pentax 16-50 2.8 SDM last night after seeing the results from the pixel shift. Not because the Tamron did a bad job, but because now that I know this is going to be viable, I also know that the Pentax 16-50 will give my shots that magic Pentax pixie dust color too.
I thought about waiting for the 24-70, but I can always use the 16-50 and k5IIs and K3II for weddings while waiting for the FF to gets to the being sold stage.