Originally posted by Tracermat Currently have the K3 and shoot with a Tamron 70-200 f2.8. Mainly shoot night time HS football and indoor basketball (both notorious for horrible lighting I know) for my kids. From all the reviews the K1 is not the camera for sports. But the K3 has to much noise for my liking in both venues and pics are not the quality I would like. First off I realize FPS from 8 to 4.4 and Im ok with that. Im looking for better quality pics. I'm not impressed with my K3 and I don't want to change brands at this point. So Anyone who has changed from the K3 to the K1 and have shot football or indoor hoops I would appreciate any feedback before I jump into the K1. Thanks ahead of time.
I was using a K-3 and now I am using a K-1 to shoot middle school sports or sometimes kids running around a court.
Since I don't use the spray and pray method I don't miss the higher frame rate. While I may miss a shot, I spend much less time going through the pictures I do take so advantage K-1. I do occasionally miss the sound of the faster shutter.
For indoor sports I used the K-3 / DA* 50-135 combo which is considerably lighter than the K-1 / DFA* 70-200, but a non-issue to me.
For outdoor sports I used the K-3 / Sigma 100-300 f4 usually without a 1.4 TC and now I use the K-1 / 100-300 mostly with the TC. My outdoor sports are all during the day.
I find the K-1 auto focus more confident, but only a little better at tracking.
The K-1 high ISO shots are much cleaner, but I found the K-3 shots to be good enough for most uses and rarely made a good picture unusable. I quickly looked through some old shots to find comparable shots. These are ISO 6400 shot in the same gym under similar lighting conditions. I do have a few pictures using even higher ISO, but under different lighting situations making comparisons difficult. I do use higher ISO more frequently on the K-1 than I did with the K-3.
In summary I think I do get more "quality" shots with the K-1, but I am not sure I would call it "a whole lot" more quality.