[GUB]

Yep comparatively FF weak for telephoto and macro dof. The dof thing doesn't matter in terms of my K01 vs K-1 coz you can always back away 50% with the K-1 and crop in to the K01 size and mps. But your K3s have a higher pixel density for what it is worth.
And you have the apsc lenses to go with.
From my perspective almost all my lenses are FF and quite simply if you express the information available from a given lens in terms of area (like megapixels) then FF imparts twice the information of apsc. (1.5 times on each dimension). And the sweet spot theory makes sod all difference. So the K-1 for my legacy glass is a no-brainer.
One thing about when I stepped from my K01 to the K-1 my reasoning was there was simply not enough bang for buck going from K01 to K3 (in my opinion). (That says a bit about my opinion about upgrading from K3 to K3iii )
Heading off to Mangaturuturu Hut on Ruapehu for three nights. Call in for a coffee (and a bunk for the night) if you feel like it anyone. Only an hour 30 in from the Turoa rd.
Have a great Easter everyone.

[Transit]

Heading off to Mangaturuturu Hut on Ruapehu for three nights. Call in for a coffee (and a bunk for the night) if you feel like it anyone. Only an hour 30 in from the Turoa rd.
Have a great Easter everyone.

Sounds tempting...But Jane has hurt her flipper

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.... I am hoping the 4K video and audio etc will be good enough that....

Oh the optimism of the Pentax user ;-)

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Quite a nice batch of lenses added to Trademe today .... .

I bags the Tammy 70-200

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From what I can work out it will be about the same price as the K1 II here in NZ i.e. $3,200 - $3,300, and yes I am planning to purchase a K3 III at that price

Dear Lord...
Makes my $2200 K-1 seem mildly less excessive

[NZ_Ross]

Oh the optimism of the Pentax user ;-)

Well, I know for sure that the Panasonic G9 video is good enough. I am really hoping that the K3 III video does the job this time .

But I will not be making any changes to my use of the G9 until I have done a lot of testing on the K3 III.

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Dear Lord...
Makes my $2200 K-1 seem mildly less excessive

You always seem to be able to get the bargains Pete

[Transit]

Scottish ploy Ross

[NZ_Ross]

Have a great Easter everyone.

Happy Easter, I hope everyone here has a fantastic long weekend, spends time with those they love, or doing what they love, and generally enjoys life this long weekend

It is a huge contrast from this time last year...

[Kiwizinho]

I bags the Tammy 70-200

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That's a nice lens. I have one and it's one of the sharpest I own although I noticed there is some softness at the edges and corners. Centre sharpness is great from wide open.
On the K-70 it's just long enough for birds if I'm patient and/or lucky, and it's given me some impressive results. I shot a wedding with it, and was very happy with the results.

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Happy Easter, I hope everyone here has a fantastic long weekend, spends time with those they love, or doing what they love, and generally enjoys life this long weekend

It is a huge contrast from this time last year...

Happy Easter everyone.

Ironically I'm stuck at home with damp weather and a respiratory virus that has laid the whole family low with snotty noses and aches and pains. I suspect a rhinovirus, because apparently they prefer cooler conditions in your respiratory tract to proliferate, which explains why colds tend to be more common in cooler weather.

This time last year I was photographing smurfs and teddy bears in people's gardens and gateways with my Sigma 150-500 to give me some distance when I went out to get some exercise.

If the weather and my cold clears up, I'm hoping to head up to Molesworth if I can convince the family, but it remains to be seen if that eventuates.

At least I'm keeping happy at home. One of my other tech indulgences besides photography is a 1980s vintage Roland synthesiser, and I just found an app online along with a bunch of somewhat over 4,000 instrument patches for it that the app will allow me to transfer to the keyboard, along with the ability to adjust all the synth parameters via a nice UI, so that could keep me occupied all weekend if I don't get out anywhere.
Actually I spent quite a bit of time on the synth last year too, although I wasn't smart enough to try to turn myself into a lockdown celebrity with live Zoom performances, although I have the gear to do it.

[Transit]

Thanks for the Tamron encouragement :-)
I was keen on the f4 Pentax version until I saw I would need to sell the other kidney to buy it

[NZ_Ross]

I was keen on the f4 Pentax version until I saw I would need to sell the other kidney to buy it

It is a nice looking lens, but as you say - expensive

[Class A]

And the sweet spot theory makes sod all difference.

Proper theory predicts that it should not make any difference.

Although throwing away the weaker parts of the image circle sounds like a good idea, in practice one outputs to the same size, which results in more magnification for the cropped (APS-C) image and hence an amplification of lens aberrations.

P.S.: I'm glad the April fool's thread title has disappeared.

[Class A]

Heading off to Mangaturuturu Hut on Ruapehu for three nights. Call in for a coffee (and a bunk for the night) if you feel like it anyone.

Would have loved to! Have to catch up with work, though.

[Class A]

Happy Easter everyone!

[Clarkey]

Happy Easter, I hope everyone here has a fantastic long weekend, spends time with those they love, or doing what they love, and generally enjoys life this long weekend

It is a huge contrast from this time last year...

Happy Easter to you all.
Ross, not for us here. "You don't know how lucky you are..."

I just bought a vehicle here (great move before another 4 weeks of lockdown) and insured it. I used to do between 25 and 50,000 K's a year. I did 4,400 in the last year and 2,000 of those were on a summer trip. Saves on insurance!

[stillwell]

As you can see I was close to my limit - $800 - but that is something the competitor doesn't know.
How ever it is nice to have a competitor in that you know you are not alone in your madness!
I figured this was my only chance to get a good birding lens for the K-1.
The nearest I have (in viable lenses) is a K 400 and comments are pretty clear about a gain from that.
Plus AF to boot. The reviews suggest it is quite effective.
I am a manual focuser on the whole but I have been aware when with other photographers with long lenses that they get the shots I miss.

Hi Gub. Hope you are having fun with the lens(that I miss! Now selling my FA 24mm and then my 35mm Sigma art 1.4 lens. Have bought a Pentax 24-70 2.8. One lens for 2,makes life simple. I will put the 24mm on to Facebook

[zkarj]

I used to do between 25 and 50,000 K's a year.

Yikes! My 14.5 year old car has done 111,000km. It's just had its first expensive thing go wrong.

[Transit]

Yikes! My 14.5 year old car has done 111,000km. It's just had its first expensive thing go wrong.

Indeed! My 97 Serena van just clicked over 150k...Up from the 134 it had done when I bought it 6 years ago :-)