Hi. Do not know about the comparative speed re canon / nikon....the K-1 is substantially faster than the K-3 and more accurate. Locks in rapidly with a flash of red in the viewfinder and a reassuring solid sound from the body. Feels to me a little like the nikon I played with last year (but cannot remember which model). My 31mm 1.8 quickly locked on. Focus peek is better on the live view too (overall the screen is a definite improvement). Couple this with the movable screen (which I forgot about for the first twenty shots and was lying on the floor as usual to see the screen) and the whole experience is better.
My first impression:
- feels more professional in overall use
- Better screen and graphics and menus
- smaller LCD on the top was a surprise - although it is functional enough
- some of the buttons have moved (like the play button to see previous shot) which I will have to get used to
- sounds and feels more solid than the K-3 (which was good anyway)
- battery went down to ⅔ quite quickly...but then did have wifi and GPS on
- wifi via iphone is cool
- easy to use the pixel shift thing with the user function buttons
- not tried many of the other features (skin enhance, clarity etc)
- files are pretty big (mostly 55+Mb) so slow photoshop down
Overall ace...just me that needs to get better now!
purple