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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
02-14-2013, 12:10 PM
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It did read a bit short, but I totally understand and thank you for the brief description, that's all I needed to know. I'll read the posting from yesterday too, thank you for adding the link :-)
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
02-14-2013, 11:57 AM
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Thank you, would you mind explaining what each one would do and their rough cost please ? Would they be wr or not ? And can you be any more specific , can you recommend a named product here ? If so, then that'd be great, if not would you mind messaging me ? I'd prefer to see the answer here for other novices like myself so I and they can use this as a reference. Thank you again :-)
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
02-14-2013, 11:46 AM
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Can anyone tell me the lens that I will need to buy for the K30,that allows me to take fast action shots in a low light area ?
Also, does this same lens allow for macro ability ?
The macro is not that important, but when I was deciding on a camera, one guy from Jessops told me if I was using the Canon 1100d, that I'd need to buy a 50mm lens to suit my needs. The upside to buying a new lens on top of a new camera, was it would also take very good portrait photos too.
Is this true for the K30 too ?
Many thanks :-)
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
02-11-2013, 09:23 AM
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Hello pentaxians,
So now I have decided to go with the K30. The next decision is the lens......I would like to capture faces in low light, so after being completely confused by salesmen trying to sell me a £600 lens, even though he really wanted to sell me a nikon as that was his preference and it was end of line stock he needed to sell to get the next nikon of his choice on the shelf....helpful eh ? I need a straight forward answer please. One thing I got from him was the k30 standard lens would not give me the f-point to capture a good picture in low light, the lens is the standard 18-55 WR. He told me the nikon had a f1.8 standard tat would allow for very good low light pictures, now call me logical, but if nikon make a f1.8 to capture low light pictures, there must be a Pentax equivalent ? If so, which lens would be best to capture fast moving faces in low light scenarios ? Thank you in advance
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
02-08-2013, 04:59 PM
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So is the K-01 any less able than the K30, weather sealing and "Brickesque" aside ? And now the dumb question....Is there a lens that covers macro upto say 135mm in one ? As I said, a zoom is not really important to me, but if there were to be a lens that did macro and a long/longish zoom, that would be helpful I'm guessing.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
02-08-2013, 02:42 PM
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I have been thinking about what you have all written...Whilst looking up prices I noticed another model being mentioned the K-01, From what I saw the only real difference between the K30 and The K-01 is the weather sealing and the K-01 is smaller/lighter. For the price difference of £100 less I would get a k-01 18-55 AND 50-200 lens ? Can any of you tell me the differences in real terms between the 2 cameras given my needs which are listed above. Thank you
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
02-07-2013, 02:09 PM
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The advice is all very welcome. The reason I have chosen the K30 aside from the actual look , the blue really is a looker, is the weather sealing. I read about the Nikon D5100 and on a Pentax forum they actually recommended the Nikon over the K30 and a Canon Rebel 4ti. However, again the weather sealing is the icing on the cake to me. In a nutshell, I want to take photos indoors of my family, maybe a few portrait pics again most likely indoors and capture my kids as they run around without getting blurred pics. As my kids are still at the age to go to ball pit play areas which are low light, I want to capture their expressions and action shots of them playing without the blur. Another incentive is the bigger sensor, the RX100 has a 1 inch sensor , but in low light situations I have always found compact cameras require flash , which usually turns my kids faces from glowing pink to ghostly white with red eyes at times, no amount of photoshopping can help, unless I go black and white and mess around for hours, this is far too time consuming with four kids. The video mode is a bonus. I already have an amazing quality Kodak sports video camera that takes stunning video in full hd, but I would rather carry just one piece of equipment around with me. As for the macro feature, I am not really fussed about taking a photo of a fly's eyelashes, I would just like to take a clear photo of say an object which is around 3 inches away from the camera, if I need to get closer I can crop and zoom with photoshop seeing as the camera is at 16MP. I currently have a Ricoh CX4 which takes incredible outdoor photos as well as a very fast continual shot feature albeit that the quality drops from 12mp down to 3mp, I have never found a compact that takes even IMO descent indoor low light pictures, let alone good pictures. This is why I am going for a DSLR, So now you've read exactly what I want from a camera, does in your opinion a DSLR sound like a step up or backwards ?
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
02-07-2013, 07:03 AM
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Honestly, some of that was over my head. But I do get the gist of your feedback. I have seen an offer that might be a better option for me, its to buy the body only and a 18-135 lens...I would save around £100 compared to buying them separately, but again, would this type of lens benefit me with the close ups ? I take it that the 18 is the starting point which will give the 12mm close up you were explaining ? So to get closer I'd need 0-18 ? The video footage using the 18-135 would logically allow me to get a better shot of the entertainer from a further distance right ? I can't leave a camera on a tripod with 50 kids mulling about, so I will have to be further back ,so the 18-135 would be better yes ? As for the 18-55 kit lens, that will allow me to take portrait shots as well as indoor shots but the only difference being the zoom is limited compared to the 18-135 ? In real feet and inches, how far can I be indoors and outdoors to get a clear shot of my subject before it starts blurring ? Sorry if my understanding seems very basic, but I have never used a dslr before only compacts, I don't want to buy one and take it back to the shop thinking it was a waste of money, when all I would have needed was a basic understanding in the first place. To explain, I could never drill a straight hole in a wall, until the technique was explained to me, now my house has shelves everywhere, but boy did I have to use a lot of filler before the basics were shown to me. BTW, Does the K30 have a time limit on shooting video footage ? I know some cameras allow only 10 mins at a time. Thank you :-)
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
02-05-2013, 02:31 PM
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I am going to buy a Pentax K30 in a few weeks, so can I ask a few questions to you ? The kit I will be getting is the 18-55 wr one, so what I need to know is how close can I get with the macro feature ? Also what is the video footage like ? I will be filming a childrens entertainer in a hall for my sons birthday and I'll be about 20/30ft away from him....Lastly (For now lol) have any of you taken shots indoors that come out clear ? I was debating between the K30 and the RX100 as I want to take photos of my kids in doors - I have blinds and uplighter lampshades - and in ball pit areas, so these I think are considered as low light situations ? I need to ask actual people rather than just reviewers as they never show pics in an indoor low light situation. Many thanks :-)
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
01-23-2013, 09:11 AM
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Hello pentaxers of the world,
After much consideration and much spending on crappy compacts I am finally going to enter the big boys club and get myself a DLSR. The model I've chosen is K-30.
Although I have read about this amazing looking camera, there are a few mysteries that I need to clear up :
Does the continuous shooting setting shoot at maximum megapixels ? Remember I am as green as a cabbage with DLSR's.
The other question, as stupid as it might seem, just how reliable and long lasting are Pentax cameras ?
I find that with all the compacts I've bought, they start slowing down or take longer to focus after about 8 months....I have soooooooo many times gone to throw my current compacts RICOH CX4 and my PANASONIC TZ8 against the wall, but I have to keep them as that's my entire camera collection.
I did seriously think about getting a SONY RX100, but for the price I could very nearly get a K-30.
The other thing that bugs me is the lens I choose, do I go for a WR zoom.....my thinking is if I want to get a close up, I'll move closer...I also don't get the whole 18-300 etc thing??? I just want a lens that allows me to take a good portrait photo of my family - btw, which software will be the easiest to remove the background so ican just cut my kids out and paste them to a blank background - My other big thing is taking photos indoors or in low light situations like children's ball pit areas, I have missed so many great shots or they have come out either as blurry/dark or my kids faces have looked like Casper the ghost.
All help will be very appreciated, I tried asking my local now defunked camera shop but they just kept pushing me to buy a hugely expensive Canon or Nikon otherwise they turned their noses up....great help eh ?
Many thanks for reading my essay ;-)
Skeferins
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