Originally posted by Zen4Life I am an ex-Pentax K-5 landscape shooter and have been reading up on Pentax's pixel shift technology. Thought I would give it a try this weekend with a K-3 II rental. One of the reasons for the test, is that, other than test shots I am finding very few "real" landscape shots online using Pixel Shift. I am aware of the limitations and am also aware of the fairly straightforward techniques to fix them in post using layers. I am quite frankly surprised at the lack of landscape examples online. Can anyone explain this?
Also, if anyone knows of a set of pixel shift landscapes they can point me too, that would be awesome.
Well I will shamelessly self-promote
I have several taken over the past few months. Counting back looks like I've used PS in about 1/5 landscape shots. I created a Flickr album with the ones that I remember or tagged with pixelshift. I may have used it on one or two others in my photo stream, but these are the ones I remember.
Searching for 'pixelshift' on Flickr turned up a couple more but not many. I find it makes a visible difference.
https://flic.kr/s/aHskvfo8zo
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Originally posted by VoiceOfReason I think the new K1 will only use moving things from one of the shots, so maybe that will find its way into the K3ii via firmware update at some point.
I do hope so. It seems to be primarily software responsible for the K-1 handling of movement in the frame so I doubt there's any technical reason they couldn't bring at least some of that back to the K-3ii, but maybe they want to save it for the K-3iii (or whatever). Kinda surprised there have been no new firmware updates on K-3ii. Guess the firmware developers have all been busy on the K-1.
And @UserAccessDenied is right that there really needs to be basically no movement. I do have a couple of other pics taken that I didn't post where there's a couple of blades of grass moving and if you pixel peep you can see a couple of artifacts. If I had wanted to post these I could've easily cleaned that up in LR/PS.