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Forum: Pentax K-3 III Monochrome
04-08-2024, 08:29 PM
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All one needs do do is look at a color chart shot with a monochrome sensor and a normal sensor and the difference is night and day. So much more subtlety with a mono sensor. It's gentle not jarring black and white. The color sensor is an MP3 at 256 and the mono is lossless.
There is this contingent in the digital B&W world that seems to have embraced ONLY the contrasty B&W films because hey, that's what a color sensor is good at. That's fine if you like that look, but it seems to be all that folks know. Not everyone shot film and processed like Daido Moriyam, yet that is the look many converting seem to aspire too, except your eyes are poked out because these days we also have clinical lab quality optics backing up the the high contrast and then that inherent sharpness is over sharpened and the smaller the sensor the worse that is. I'd shoot 4x5 or 8x10 view camera if I could.
From the article "and the camera itself is honker to lug around." LOL I was shooting a Nikon D4s prior. That IS a honker to lug around. One thing, if I was doing street with this, Ricoh still hasn't found the autofocus plot, witness the dad and daughter shot in the article, I'd shoot hyperfocal or manual. My Canon T6S runs circles around Ricoh AF. But the buildings and nature don't move so fast, I'm fine.
You could say I'm the old man saying get off my lawn and maybe I am but one thing that can stay on my lawn is the KIII Mono.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III Monochrome
03-04-2024, 09:44 PM
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That for me, anyway is what B&W is about. For years I looked at all the effect packs etc and thought, most of them just look harsh, nothing like b&w film, but now there is something that looks like it, aside from the Leica mono, but something I can afford.
Now I need to buy a few primes, I bought a zoom that covers what I need but I don't like zooms. To me its crank and stank. I cranked the barrel and the photo stank, rather than walking to wear I need to be with an appropriate lens. I think it takes more discipline than I have to use a zoom.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-04-2024, 06:26 PM
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They need to make a small-ish rugged with at least the IQ of the MX point and shoot. Their current ruggedized are not as good as most phones.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III Monochrome
03-04-2024, 06:22 PM
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Nice. I bought C1 before I even planned on a K3 Mono and now that I'm shooting the mono more than color, I'm looking for one program to do both. Still holding out, but we'll see.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III Monochrome
03-04-2024, 05:40 PM
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I have a polarizer and a green filter so far. Haven't really had a chance to do much with green as where I live there is very little foliage now. I suspect I will add an orange filter to make skys a bit more interesting. Not sure I'm ready for a red on that point.
I think of all the polarizer by itself will be the most used.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-04-2024, 05:37 PM
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I filled it in when they mailed me. I'm glad of the opportunity. Nikon never asked me what I thought. I would have gladly told them their skin tones sucked.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III Monochrome
03-04-2024, 05:10 PM
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Really liking the monochrome. These are sooc, it does well in many lighting conditions. Mostly I like the more subtle greys compared to most digital B&W which seems to push things to black or white leaving the middle ground missing. It's more of a flat equalizer setting than the common smile. Much more pleasing to my eye, much more like film.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 III Monochrome
12-10-2023, 10:10 PM
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This is exactly the reason I bought this camera (on it's way). The tonality. So much of the digital black and white (converted from color) ends up with so few tones. This is much richer IMO.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
01-12-2023, 11:26 PM
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I have to say for me, cell phones are nice for convenience and they handle tough light great because of their baked in HDR.
That said. The output is not what I want at all. Colors are over saturated and fine detail is a smeared mess when compared to larger sensors.
They have come a long way, but software can only go so far against physics.
What I would love is a APS-C or Full Frame camera with the sense that the phones have.
Both have their advantages for sure.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-06-2019, 05:01 PM
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I once had an E-500 really loved the JPG colors. Had the Kodak manufactured sensor if I recall correctly.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
05-31-2015, 08:57 AM
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Some of the 4/3 zooms were arguably some of the best ever made. I have an em-5 and find I prefer the output of the e-500 and e-630 I had in many ways to the Sony chip in the em-5.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
04-25-2015, 01:59 PM
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It's the new Canon sensor
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
04-25-2015, 01:58 PM
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I guessed based on the yellow. Pentax yellow runs more towards green and Canon toward red.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
12-25-2014, 05:46 PM
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True. Even if you don't see it it can reduce contrast and give a slight haze over the whole frame ala the Fuji x100.
No idea of the magnitude of the D750 issue. Speaking to flare in general.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-04-2014, 12:38 PM
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I never found the portrait setting on Nikon to be any better. It just gave a less contrasty yellow/green, peach or grey.
I don't think I could pick the Canon's out, but would have a high success rate picking Nikon unless the photographer spent a lot of time in post trying to make them look better.
I don't necessarily think Canon is best, just way better than Nikon. Olympus used to be great before the latest generation of sensors, they are still decent, but not nearly as nice as older ones. I have a theory that the Sony sensors or at least current high dynamic range CMOS sensors may be harder for camera makers to get good skin tones out of.
Canon's seem to be more forgiving from one area of the face to another. Shadow transitions are gentler. Nikon is harsh and will leap from one tone to another with little transition. Probably makes for nice landscapes, but not pleasing on portraits.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-03-2014, 06:33 PM
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So, it's all down to profiles and white balance? I'm not going to try to convince you. It's obvious you can't see it. And that's fine, some can't, but some can. It's well documented that people see the same things differently.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-03-2014, 08:31 AM
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I'm not so sure, sports and wildlife shooters that have the cost is no object are shooting 1DX and 5D3 with long fast glass from what I've seen. They probably use a crop body as well, but their go to camera is a FF. Birders might be the exception.
The advanced hobbyists flock to APS-C because they can't afford good glass beyond 400mm. They like the 1.6 teleconverter as you say.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-03-2014, 08:24 AM
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+1
You don't see nearly as many "why can't I get pleasing skin tones out of my Canon" threads as you do Nikon. With Nikon, many claim skin tones for Caucasians have gone down hill since the D200 days.
Canon, while not perfect takes less work. Nikon gives you Yellow, green/grey, or peach skin or a combo of all three in the same photo to try to fix. But... you can pull shadows five stops! I guess if you only shoot trees, rocks and water you've got it made.
I haven't seen enough photos from the D750, but right now, if I shot Nikon for portraits, I'd be using the DF. Nikon's own sensor seems better for skin than the Sony ones.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-02-2014, 01:29 PM
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Amazing, but it's also an unrealistic scenario unless you set out to produce phart ala the one shot hdr "wonders" that I see out of the D8xx cameras on Flickr.
Most wedding pros aren't going to run into that scenario I'm guessing based on the author's statement "I repeat, this is not a real world example, it's simply testing the furthest reaches of the sensor."
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
09-18-2014, 05:05 AM
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The target buyer of the 7DII is the wildlife or sports photographer that can't afford to put the glass they need on the 5dIII or the 1DX. For that shooter, Pentax isn't a consideration, nor is Samsung.
Yes Canon is behind in sensor technology, but that matters less than what the buyers of the Canon gain in many other areas. Nikon DX shooters are perturbed that their choice is the D7100 or the old D300(s). Yeah, they've got a better sensor in the D7100, but they long for the build quality of the D300, and hate their short raw buffer in the D7100. The 7Dii is better in those areas. Skin tones to boot, are better in the eyes of most on Canon, at least compared to Nikon, though wildlife shooters might prefer the punchiness of the Nikons.
It will, if the AF works as advertised, be better than any other Canon, Nikon or Pentax crop body (though I know it can't touch the Sony A 6000 with the world's fastest AF, but then you can't have everything :) )
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
09-15-2014, 08:28 AM
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Once they handle as well and have the battery life, why not. That said, I'll probably get one of these eventually. I'll have it as my point and shoot counterpart to my DSLR.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
09-15-2014, 08:26 AM
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I would take the 5d3. It's AF is better, it's build is better, better primes in general, 1/8000. The D750 will have a better sensor according to DXO.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
09-12-2014, 02:39 PM
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My bet is zero would have switched unless they were spitting nails after the D600 oil spots fiasco. Even then, the rest of the Nikon system would be much more attractive to the wedding photographer.
I think the 750 will be a good success and what the 6x0 line should have been in the first place. Though why they limited the shutter speed to 1/4000 is beyond me. The D700 owner has got to feel like this is nowhere near the body they hold in their hands already in many respects.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
09-09-2014, 08:35 AM
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Yes, if it comes it at 24mp and fast. It's going to make lots of folks happy.
BTW, I know some wedding shooters that use Canon that shoot mraw for most everything but group shots. They don't even want the full 24mp.
Today if I was wedding shooter using Nikon, it would be a D4(s), D3(s) or D700 or the DF.
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