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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
09-18-2018, 01:25 PM
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Spoke with Precision in the U.S. today, and they are waiting on the next round of upgrade parts, and the person I spoke to said demand was much higher than anticipated.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
04-26-2018, 07:18 AM
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Yep, and I think I'm in a similar camp as you. While I use my K3II for most of my birding, the combination of being able to get that shutter speed up combined with imrpoved AF, which sounds like it might be pretty significant, makes the mark II upgrade a really appealing step for me. And I figure when I'm serious on landscape photography, I'll get the tripod out, and if no tripod, the hand held pixel shift looks like another win win situation.
Really looking forward to the start of the upgrade program here in the U.S.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
04-26-2018, 06:43 AM
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There's been a lot of really good discussion here, and I respect the points of view expressed, but really, until we have some very well controlled comparisons in a variety of conditions between the mark I and mark II models, I think we're at the point of just splitting hairs.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
04-20-2018, 12:56 PM
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That's unfortunate. The only reason for my query on a copy from DCU is it eliminates so many variables on what other software is doing. Whether true, one would certainly hope that a RAW image processed with DCU would provide as "accurate" an image as possible, whereupon better conclusions may be drawn.
What we really need is several series of shots with both flavors of K-1 side by side, and then repeated with different subjects and lighting. I would expect we'll be seeing something like that in the review that I'm sure Adam must be working on.
My guess is we'll end up with two camps. The "purists" who want as raw a RAW as possible who will argue to do any noise reduction etc. in the software of your choice, where you have control, is superior, and then there will be the "adopters" who will say the chip level noise reduction is better,who has time to do it manually for every shot, and the AF improvement trumps it all anyway, if you shoot any type of moving object. It'll be back to shooting style really dictating which is "better", and that will be the photographer's choice. Good to have choices.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
04-20-2018, 09:59 AM
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I don't think Pentax has made any statements saying the accelerator chip is/is not used as part of the AF improvements. Has anyone seen anything official?
It certainly would make sense that the new chip could give them more horsepower for the calculations. And if not, I can see from a business standpoint of not releasing a firmware update on the older cameras to give an incentive for an upgrade. I can't fault them too much for that. The rewrite of the algorithms has a real cost - they didn't rewrite themselves one night while everyone slept. It is not unreasonable to want to recoup some of that cost.
Am I missing it, or did the OP ever provide a link to an image produced from DCU? Is the OP even still participating on this thread?
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
04-15-2018, 01:12 PM
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Could you do this again (jpeg export) using the up to date version of DCU that shipped with the camera? That should hopefully eliminate any software anomalies.
Thanks
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