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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
05-10-2020, 02:46 AM
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let's get back to the topic: what STOPPED me from getting a K1
well well. pentax has a nice legacy of lenses. however, no digital camera of theirs autofocus screw drive properly, it's a gamble. their film slrs actually perform better in this regard. no matter which pentax dslr you take, you're not getting proper autofocus unless it's a new lens with internal motor - then it works as it should on any camera! 500 оr 1500 money camera – it will be the same.
that leads to importance of a nice viewfinder. by nice i mean large enough, bright enough and HAVING A SPLIT SCREEN / MICROPRISM to make focusing decision obvious and fast... why? because of nice manual lenses legacy and screwdrive AF being a joke! guess if it's there on а K100D Super that i've been using since 2007. no it's not. what about K1 some ten years later? no it's not! money is not an issue.. it's just not there for you. the basic function is not there for any money.
what's there then for three times the price in ten years? oh, lots of things and none of them matter except a 36mm sensor. actually, other things got worse or stayed the same. what's that?
usb 2.0 - it's last of importance but come on!
general ugliness. it's a winner. i couldn't find any other dslr as ugly as K1. why oh why. does it make it cheaper to produce? but K100d was entry level and looked proper and balanced. and now this top dial like a tyre from a toy automobile, that stubborn lcd screen which looks like an aftermarket mod (at least it's there...)
terrible ergonomics. after ricoh taking over it seems that ergonomics had a redesign for one handed aliens. where's the left hand button row now? why is the left side chopped off like with an axe? how's that supposed to help you shoot? hmm, is that to facilitate flipping now-rotatable screen to make selfies? umm, no, it doesn't flip. why oh why. the buttons and dials are put out so that you're touching the wrong ones all the time and that's being a pentax user! take an old film pentax, a new nikon - whatever, fingers just sit intuitively at right positions. no, not the case with K-1... even that one handed approach is not done properly - you can't dive your fingers deep enough into the grip to hold it properly as it's made for... err... alien hand? come on, even z1p is proper in this regard although it's considered a weirdly designed camera.
i've already talked about focusing screen... although it's larger on K1 than on K100D, it's still not fit for proper manual focusing. sigh.
i reaaaaallly wanted a 36mm pentax for my lenses and to be an upgrade for K100D which has too little colour in shadows (yes, just that apart from difficult focusing and slow burst speed)... but with such option... i even refused a £800 offer on a new k1 mk2.. it's... a really robustly built machine to solve non existing problems with worst ergonomics ever. yes it's full frame but i don't like CMOS too much anyway. I must say that K1 colors are more off than K100D. K100D gets it right in good light and with K1 it's not so natural... i find many CMOS cameras to have so many colours yet wrongly mapped somewhat, it's not a K1-only thing.
all in all i think ricoh has went out too far and will never return...
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Forum: Winners' Showcase
09-08-2019, 03:00 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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