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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
09-23-2018, 08:08 PM
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I've had my K1-ii back for just over a week and feel that overall the AF is faster and more decisive.
My style is mainly street work these days, and do a bit of post processing in Nik Silver Efex, but pixel peeping at the images I find they are cleaner and I need to adjust luminance/noise far less.
Detail is no worse than the K1 in my opinion.
I tried out the dynamic pixel shift when I got it back - and had a look at some comparison images at ISO 3200 and 25600 (had to do that in Raw Therapee - LR CC still has no support!) which were very impressive.
I shoot a lot of images up to ISO 20000 so I'll be doing more testing - but so far all good.
If you want to see what I've done so far - in B&W and Nik Silver Efex -
here are a few images on Flickr
In my opinion its worth the upgrade
Cheers
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
09-11-2018, 05:44 PM
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I'm using my K5 whilst my K1 is being upgrade to the mark II and have to say I'm missing the K1. The K5 is good - but lacks the refinement of the K1.
I've noticed the hesitant AF (and fewer AF points), the mass, the LCD viewfinder resolution, the button placement as big differences.
I'm looking forward to the upgrade - after hesitating with the many naysayers.
Enjoy your new K1-II - hope to join you in that world soon ;)
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-01-2017, 03:27 PM
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
02-24-2017, 05:17 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
01-23-2017, 03:32 AM
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Ok - so everyone has said how much they love this camera.
I got to seriously use it last week wandering around a food market then going to a live music gig with LED lights.
What's more, I used my old Sigma 28-70mm f2.8 DF only. So not a current generation lens, and screw drive, and it's been in the wars (dropped it and had it fixed a couple of years ago)
- AF was snappy and mostly spot on (some errors when I was in AF33 vs AF9 - that is just me learning I suspect)
- low light was no challenge to the AF or the exposure - no more than 1/2 a stop off most of the time. I used it the night before in near total darkness at my camera club and it didn't even struggle!
- that change to FF from APS-C has made the lens much more usable as a walk around - wide to short tele, with great DOF change - got to get used to f2.8 really being shallow!
- Noise at high ISO is no drama (I shot up to 6400 ISO at the music gig, and 12800 at the camera club) - it really is easy to deal with in Lightroom. And the pixel size is so small you don't really see it
I can see why everyone is in raptures - it is a beast (and the pair together are a heavy combo BTW)
Here are some shots from those two shoots:
Poh
Weight
Lollipop Lollipop......
Blue song
Bassman singing
Chris, on Flickr
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-04-2012, 05:17 PM
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This has been discussed many times before - and the results are variable. You can see people have used all sorts of lenses. The downside is variations in quality.
Have a look at this thread: https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-slr-lens-discussion/96625-canon-fd...tml#post983862
As an aside (and off topic to a certain extent) I've managed to mount a Canon FD auto bellows to my K200D with a K to Tmount adapter + Tmount to FD adapter. Works ok - just need better glass in front. I'm thinking of microscope objectives or enlarger lenses.
Cheers
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
05-16-2010, 05:55 PM
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First - I think your kit is great - and you'll grow into it with ease. That 100mm f2.8 will amaze you with sharp, poppy images. A flash is IMHO a boon to any photographer - it amazing how many situations need more than the built in unit. Enjoy your new kit! :D
Just to put in a bit of extra info on netiquette and reading UPPER CASE vs Mixed Case vs lower case.
Netiquette regards all caps as shouting - its been around for a long time, and probably stems from the fact that when we read we don't read the individual letters but the shape of the words and key letters (every misread a word? Its probably got the same key letters in the same place as the other word).
The combination of risers and descenders make reading easier according to
research from the 1930s onward - its pattern recognition. Lower case text is read faster than upper case text.
There is also evidence we read what we are used to faster - most of us read lower case text more often. You can train yourself to read UPPPER CASE faster if you read lots of it
MiXinG CAseS is AlSo dIffIculT to REaD - you have to read each letter
But there are papers showing its the placement of letters in a word that lead to its recognition.
Have a read of the following for starters (the last one has lots of references):
Just my two bits worth......;)
Cheers ;)
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-28-2010, 06:33 PM
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