Originally posted by barondla Not sure a Z is a lot more prefervbable. It gains slightly more pixels, faster shooting, liveview, and high ISO, but loses the ccd sensor. Some say ccd is unbeat for color image qualty. I may add a D one day to see.
Are you shooting subjects so fast that the K-1 is insufficient?
Thanks,
barondla
My first attempts with digital medium format. I 'd only had the camera a month, and the lens arrived 2 days before the challenge. Had little time to shoot some of these, since I am an essential employee.
Single In April 2020 | Flickr Fast? Not so much, more to do with AF accuracy and buffer. Typically for example u will shoot a wedding ceremony, and it begins with the flower girl coming down the aisle, she might only be walking but even Pentax struggles with good AF keepers for targets coming towards the user (targets walking away is a different story and you get way more keepers from that scenario, but yeh who wants bums in focus shots lol... actually... prolly a lot of people
). So you fire off 10-13 shots of the flower girl, hoping to get a moment that represents the mood best, her smiling, the flower petals tossed up into the air in a nice way etc, all the while knowing a good 50% will be out of focus.. lol #pentaxlife.
But wait there's more! Now you have the maid of honour walking towards you... damn... I hope the buffer can handle another burst of 10-13 shots within a 3-5 sec period...
Ok... now its the really important moment, bride and father of the bride, but wait... the buffer is starting to crap out... argh!
And that's before the actual ceremony, capturing moments, kisses etc.
The thing about event photography is it's unpredictable. You can have a speech moment and you see a funny moment unfold, you feel 'this is my time! I have to capture these moments!' so you go into overdrive and shoot the speaker and crowd reactions. You feel really happy, you burst like crazy, you
know you got some great moments, you feel chuffed, you pushed the camera hard when it needed it, and now the buffer is locked up, but it's ok right... u got the moment... right? Wrong... someone from the crowd says something funny (heckles or whatever) and now this
new moment is even
more hilarious than the first!! Argh! These moments are
even better than the last! But the camera is stuck and locked up... yer not squeezing off nearly enough shots...
This is the life of a Pentax event shooter, trust me lol. It's not something you can easily navigate, better AF and Buffer just helps, period... because... the unpredictability factor of moments (and photography is all about moments).
So in this regard, I would be happy to compromise and lose FF and be on 'only' crop
if there was substantial improvements in these kind of scenarios. I would replace the K-1 with an even bigger sensor for those shots that just cry out for MF.