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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 07-03-2016, 01:54 PM  
Tony Northrup - K-1 Review
Posted By Rondec
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Maybe I am too easy to please, but the current K-1 is more than adequate for everything I shoot. :)
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 07-02-2016, 03:14 AM  
Tony Northrup - K-1 Review
Posted By Rondec
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I don't think the thread is as bad as that. A few folks did come across pretty harshly, but certainly not everyone. At the same time, if Tony Northup has a right to have an opinion of Pentax gear (without much knowledge of it), then we also have a right to form opinions about his review, which seemed fairly shallow and uninformed.
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 07-01-2016, 02:47 AM  
Tony Northrup - K-1 Review
Posted By Rondec
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You make a number of comments that are of uncertain value. A large number of lenses, particularly primes, are of "film" era vintage. Particularly in the 50mm range the design of those lenses has not changed significantly over time. Coatings have improved somewhat, although Pentax's SMC was top end in its day and still very good now. Zooms have improved a lot more over time with computer design, but Pentax has released four new zooms covering the range from 15mm to 450mm. That's pretty decent in my book.

Auto focus has been sub optimal in the past, but unless you are a sports photographer, the K-1 does really well, particularly with the newer zooms, with regard to tracking (general auto focus has already been adequate for a long time). A lens like the DFA *70-200 is going to track excellently and is sharp edge to edge wide open.

People did buy expensive lenses in the days of film. In fact, you can argue that fast apertures were significantly more important, as folks were shooting with film that maxed out at iso 1600 and wasn't great quality at that point. Whatever you could do to bring your iso down a little, you would do. And I don't even have an idea what you mean when you say "as far as I can tell, the photography business as we know it didn't even exist in the days of film." There have been wedding photographers, landscape photographers, sports photographers, fashion photographers since the early 1900s. Digital didn't create any of those things, it just made photography more accessible to the average man and woman -- a good thing in my book, but it isn't as though photography and excellent photos just popped up in the last ten to fifteen years.

The K-1 is a nice camera. It is a camera that brings to the table 95 percent of what is in the D810 for half the price and throws in some additional features like image stabilization on the sensor, pixel shift, astro tracer, and a third control wheel to make a camera that is very nice. It won't be for everyone, just as the D810 isn't for everyone, but there aren't any cameras priced at the 1800 dollar point that are going to beat it significantly in any area.
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 06-23-2016, 11:59 AM  
Tony Northrup - K-1 Review
Posted By Rondec
Replies: 296
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I don't think so. I think the K-1 has the same auto focus module as is in the K3, but with more points between the points that are there on the K3.
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 06-20-2016, 07:27 AM  
Tony Northrup - K-1 Review
Posted By Rondec
Replies: 296
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Exactly. With DCU, there is a drop down menu that lets you choose the three options you have listed. Just choose a Motion Corrected shot and also a regular shot and you will have both a pixel shifted shot and the first image of the four in your pixel shift raw file.
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 06-20-2016, 03:54 AM  
Tony Northrup - K-1 Review
Posted By Rondec
Replies: 296
Views: 30,082
By this standard, I don't think that Samyang lenses should be counted as available in EOS or F mount. At least they do have an 'A' setting for the k mount, but not for Nikon or Canon, as far as I can tell. Obviously manual focus for all mounts.
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 06-19-2016, 02:37 PM  
Tony Northrup - K-1 Review
Posted By Rondec
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DXO Mark releases tested iso measurements as compared to camera stated isos. So, they measure the D810 to have an iso of 4900 at a stated iso of 6400. Maybe it isn't perfect, but I do look at it. Most manufacturers seem to inflate their isos a little at the high iso end and some do so a lot.
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 06-19-2016, 02:57 AM  
Tony Northrup - K-1 Review
Posted By Rondec
Replies: 296
Views: 30,082
We'll see how DXO Mark test things. I don't think most camera makers fudge on low iso much, but certainly at high iso they all fudge a little bit. My experience is that Pentax isn't as bad as Canon or Nikon in this department though.

Anyway, if base iso of this sensor really was iso 50, it would make a lot more sense for Pentax to offer an iso 50 setting, as that would be an extra feature, then to call iso 50 iso 100.
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