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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
09-11-2016, 11:02 AM
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No, I wasn't offended at all, but I was concerned that my point might be lost.
added: I suppose I should have attached a picture of my Q-7 hung on the end of the physically heaviest lens I own - a 300mm Super Takumar. That turned out to be a disastrous combination with respect to Image Quality. In that case I literally did support the entire thing via my left hand, and the only thing my right hand did was to operated the shutter.
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Forum: General Photography
09-09-2016, 10:02 AM
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When I was a kid in the 50s, I had an AM transistor radio the size of a large book, a Brownie Hawkeye (3" x 3" cube) with an extra roll of 620 film, and a dime to make a 'phone call.
Some years later this changed to a radio not too much larger than a package of cigarettes, a Kodak Instamatic of about the same size, and a quarter to make a 'phone call.
Fifteen years ago I carried a flip-phone, an iPod, and a small digital camera.
Today I carry just one item - a smartphone that makes the 'phone call, takes the photos, provides the music, and also does a bunch of other things.
Will the consumer camera disappear? Of course. Will people be taking more photos than ever? Absolutely.
Time marches on.
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Forum: Pentax Q
09-01-2016, 01:26 PM
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One of the things Q can do well is, something needs deeper DOF in "relative" low light such as group pictures in limited space. You will have to stop down a lot to have everyone covered on larger formate camera, which will push ISO higher. You can still shot "wide-open" on Q :)
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
11-26-2015, 11:35 AM
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Good anecdote. Someone without social skills attempting to become self-employed in a service industry should reconsider their plan. :-) The dream might remain alive if they have a bubbly wife or hire similar for the front of business.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
11-12-2015, 02:59 PM
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Photographer upper body strength :D
...could not resist...
Steve
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
08-27-2015, 08:45 AM
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They really should make a K-mount foveon, they reverse engineer glass, why not cameras too?
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Forum: Pentax K-S1 & K-S2
08-04-2015, 05:55 PM
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Notoriously, most companies don't like giving actual sales numbers for various items, not to the public, not even to stockholders.
They think the negatives of such disclosures outweigh the positives.
Even a massive company like Apple picks and chooses - it's been coy on its Watch sales, for instance.
The Japanese camera firms traditionally will let their data be aggregated so as to be non-identifying - this is the source of CIPA figures.
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
07-29-2015, 08:06 PM
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
07-22-2015, 12:13 PM
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With wildlife photography you will use the longest/fastest lens that you can afford and wield. End of story. Has nothing to do with equivalence.
As to whether or not you should use a full frame camera, probably not, because you'll probably be cropping your D800 past APS-C levels. Once again, not an equivalence thing, just common sense. If you aren't using the outer one half of your sensor, why pay for it?
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