Originally posted by neokind It also allows you to shoot even while the buffer is writing to the card, so there's no down time.
One of the most irritating things about shooting action with Pentax tis just that. It turned Kenspo away from Pentax. Yesterday it was a major source of irritation for me. But all that is the benefit of a dedicated AF and a separate exit pipeline. not dependant on the central processor, which I suspect Pentax deems too expensive to implement, That's why they call it a field camera.
You get the impression if you have small kids and you just want better pictures of them running around, Pentax is not for you. For guys like me who take picture, mostly of fields, Pentax is alright, most of the time, and irritating the rest of the time.
There's a how much irritation can you stand, factor. I know some will say I don't fit the profile, I can be very patient with equipment, it's people that bother me.
For me, figuring out how to do it with aPentax is half the fun. If it takes longer that's OK, because I'll probably just be bored soon as my files are processed, so I may as well enjoy more time out in the fields with my camera.
I've also started watching baseball.
I never watched while I could play, and I played until i was 63, but now, somehow it's interesting. My wife says I should be managing because I'm always explaining what the managers did wrong, and what idiots the commentators are .
You get to be old enough, you just want to slow the good times down and make them last.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned is how easy it is to shoot int he larger full frame viewfinder. It's easier to follow the bird, you can still crop to higher than 20 MP, and the bird can be a lot foruther away, making tracking unnecessary. The shot with AF.s and heavily cropped.
And I find the K-1 crops are much cleaner pixel peeping than any APS-c images I've seen.
This image is is good as a pixel peeper as any APS-c image I'seen oversampled.
These images are from this week's micro observations, the kind you get when you shoot lots. There is nothing theoretical about them. I'm not searching my files here trying to prove a point.