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Forum: Pentax K-70 & KF
08-07-2017, 10:30 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-70 & KF
08-07-2017, 06:14 AM
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Now that I've had the camera for a couple of months and am nearing 3K shots with it under a huge variety of circumstances, here are my disappointments (very few) and thrills (enough to adore the beast)
Disappointments:
-Not really specifically K-70 but more in general, pixel-shift. I had expected a great deal of it but after having experimented in a number of different circumstances, the difference is not worth it for me. Less noise? A bit, yes. More detail? Almost imperceptibly so, yes. Nothing orgasmic though.
-Battery-life: not really a disappointment as I was pre-warned. Nothing a couple of spares cannot handle but still...
-LCD screen (and yes, you'll see it under thrills as well): less useful than I had initially expected and a bit hard to see in bright sunlight - no biggie though
Thrills
-Form factor: really good grip even without a grip if you'll pardon the pun
-LCD screen: the way in which it is articulated actually helps with portrait-oriented shots as well as with low (close to ground) and high(overhead or straight up super-wideangle shots) shooting. One of the many reasons I chose the K-70 over the KP
-High-ISO performance. Whole new world for me. I regularly used up to ISO3200 on the K-5 IIs with individual exposures up to ISO6400. With the K-70 ISO8000 is my new "acceptable standard" and is still reasonably clean after a bit of work now and I've spiked to ISO12800 at times. Noise cleans up in post pretty darned well too (NeatImage or DarkTable)
-Long timed exposures up to 20 minutes in B(ulb) mode: I was worried at first I couldn't use my remote timer due to the different remote connector on the K-70 but this covers all of my requirements. It was a bit hard to locate at first but now that I found it (press green button on top and set exposure time) it works absolutely brilliant for long, timed exposures with an ND1000 and ND64 filter
-Image quality: a highlight for me, the camera just delivers it in bucketloads
-Instant settings menu screen: this one really surprised me as it is really useful both with- or without liveview. It softened the loss of a few hardware knobs and dials coming from the K-5 IIs
All in all, I'm a very happy camper! Oh, and did I ever mention my skepticism about non-fixed aperture zooms? No longer applicable since I got the 16-85mm, super versatile range as well as excellent sharpness - my new best friend - and it has 72mm filterthread which means it takes all of my Haida's.
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