Originally posted by Merv-O Walter:
Your K-1 pics are great and detailed. Mine are lacking. I think there is something wrong with my K-1 ii--it has never produced photos like yours. The calibration is too far off. I'm going to send it to Precision under warranty to look at it. Thinking of soldiering through with the KP and the K-S2 (plus my Leica Kits) until it's right....I picked up a SIGMA 15-30mm (a quality lens) yesterday and was shooting with it--no matter what I did, I couldn't get it to clear focus even at low ISO (The street scene was shot at 1600; the Fado Blackboard was shot at 4000)......let me know what you think as I respect your opinion
Before sending the camera off for repair try this: Go outside on a nice sunny day. Using your best lens, set to ISO 100 or 200, f5.6 to f8, use manual focus, live view, focus peaking. Take an image that includes a distant sign such as "no parking 9AM to 5PM " IF YOU ARE RECORDING IN RAW, when you get the file into your computer boost the sharpness. RAW directly from the camera almost always benefits from, even requires some PP sharpness boost. If you are using LR, push the sharpness slider up to about 30, or to a maximum of about 50. Then evaluate sharpness by enlarging the sign
provided you have a good quality monitor = generally not a laptop monitor, as my images never look as good on my laptop as they do on the bigger desktop monitor.
AND why on Earth would you or anyone else on this forum trust me??? There are scores, even hundreds of better photographers who post on this forum.