Bless me father, for I have sinned. It's been.... Wait, wrong forum.
Hi, my name is Honor, it's been 2 days since... Nope, wrong forum again.
(singing)  Quote: I went to the Moped Camera store, said **** it
Salesman's like what up, what's your budget?
And I'm like honestly, I don't know nothing about Mopeds Cameras
He said I got the one for you, follow me! I wonder if there are any Macklemore listeners here... >.>;; That joke could fall seriously flat...
So, hi. My name is Honor. As you can doubtless tell, I'm a pain in the backside who thinks she's funny. I'm also almost as new to the concept of camera ownership as one can be. I've had a little Canon - what'd the call them, one shots? sure shots? Gut-shots? Anyway, that was years ago, and - you'll love this - the idea of it was to let me start to learn about f-stops and ISOs and all that arcane tomfoolery. And I did learn a little, and had a lot of fun, and I guess it served its purpose. Then phones became awesome cameras, and I use that a fair bit, I guess.
And now it's time for the Next Level. I'm kind of a maestro with Photoshop. That's how I make much of my income. I've also made so many websites it makes my soul hurt, and that's a landscape changing in ways I don't want to keep up in (I already know as much javascript and php as I want to know, thank you very much) and I'm lucky enough to have an opportunity to go back to school and learn something else I've wanted to do for a long time - video editing, 3D/VFX, motion graphics - but couldn't take time to learn, because people kept handing me money to build them websites.
Bored yet?
So, I found a good program and started taking classes. Jr college, and older than some of my professors, let alone the other students. Hi-larious, lemme tell ya. >.>;;
Well, this next semester, I've got a photography class, so it's time to buy a camera. I do a ton of research, ask every camera person I know, and eventually, narrow it down to the Canon T7i or the Nikon 5600. Then I ask everyone I know again (who sees what post on Facebook is effectively random- well, really, it's based on some very complex algorithms and traffic patterns, but effectively random, for human purposes) and this time my brother sees it, and says no, no, no, grasshopper - you need a Pentax, is what you need. So I heaved a heavy sigh and did more research and holy cats! This thing (KP) is amazing!
I still haven't actually bought it - because I'm a professional digital artist and shooting my own image stock, backdrops, elements, product shots, etc., has appeal, I want really good image quality, but because the whole point of this exercise is going back t college for film stuff, great digital video is [i]mandatory.[\i] Some of the reviewers have kind of dismissed the video capabilities of the Pentax cameras out of hand, but then they didn't show me crappy video, they just said Pentax lags behind in that area. On the other hand, I have seen a couple of YouTube clips that show amazing video footage from a KP. So, when you balance that with the huge pile of other plusses and tricks and capabilities, the fact that it's just right at the high end of what I was wanting to spend is forgiven, and I plan on buying a KP, I think.
So, questions - for those 1 or 2% of you still reading, I mean.
What do you think of the KPs video, if you have one? Or Pentax DSLR video in general?
Also, if you do anything with VFX, do the additional Super Powers the KP and it's kin have regarding color and so on help with chroma keying, masking, and tracking?
Thank you in advance, if anyone is still reading. :)
(omg, she finally shut up... ;)
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