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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 08-11-2016, 11:16 PM  
Fstoppers Reviews the Pentax K-1
Posted By clackers
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Well, Dan, Kenspo says:

"I do pro-work with concerts and events. K-1 AF is not on par with D5 (who is?), but its fast and very accurate. The ISO is nothing to even think about up to 6400. You can get away with 8000- 12 800 too with some NR in post. But as its also said, you need to have the newest glass..15-30, 24-70 and 70-200 to get 100% out of the new AF system."

and Adam has said:

"Owning both a Pentax K-1 and a Nikon D810 at the moment, I can say that the Pentax AF system does lag behind Nikon's, but it really isn't a huge difference unless you're pushing things to the limit for action shooting .... the widespread claim that "Pentax AF sucks" is far from accurate IMO. "Pentax AF isn't cutting edge" would be more appropriate, because in all fairness, it isn't. But most users will still be happy with it."

Their opinions simply don't match what FStoppers and DPR claimed, nor what experienced Pentaxians know.

More great pics I've seen, birds, planes and boat racing follow. The comments are worth reading, including the guy getting GT racing, at night, with one of the slowest focussing zoom lenses Pentax ever made! :)

https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/173-general-photography/327369-pentax-aut...ml#post3735870

https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/172-pentax-k-3/242969-sports-images-k-3-a...ml#post3619901

https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/190-pentax-k-1/327644-k-1-does-24h-spa-ki...ml#post3737764
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 08-11-2016, 01:00 AM  
Fstoppers Reviews the Pentax K-1
Posted By clackers
Replies: 173
Views: 16,619
You keep pointing to that example - I don't understand why, unless you've closed your mind, Dan.


Check out the rally cars in my post above - clearly that forum member is panning.


You say you want to do wildlife photography in your country? Check out these photos posted just a few minutes ago ... by a South African user, @vollerp.


https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/190-pentax-k-1/314413-post-your-k-1-pictu...ml#post3737288


Why not look at the whole Birds in Flight thread? They're not being pre-focused.


Either you listen to bloggers and Internet experts or fellow photographers. The choice is up to you. :)
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 08-10-2016, 10:21 PM  
Fstoppers Reviews the Pentax K-1
Posted By clackers
Replies: 173
Views: 16,619
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 08-08-2016, 05:32 AM  
Fstoppers Reviews the Pentax K-1
Posted By clackers
Replies: 173
Views: 16,619
I think it's pretty foolish to keep defending Alex Cooke, Dan. :)

If he can't photograph horses like members of the forum, that's his problem as a photographer. If he tries to judge an aspect of an unfamiliar camera by just eleven photos, that's his problem as a reviewer.

If you want one of the most difficult sequences imaginable, why are you ignoring Biz-engineer's, done even with the older k-3?

Remember, ducks are amongst the fastest birds in the world - one website has five of them in the top ten species. Link: https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/190-pentax-k-1/319924-can-anyone-k-1-give...ml#post3624814
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 08-06-2016, 03:49 AM  
Fstoppers Reviews the Pentax K-1
Posted By clackers
Replies: 173
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Oh, do try to keep up, @Gimbal. :)

I said *skills* in my first post.

And also bother to read post 27 by a fellow forum member ... skills can be improved.
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 08-05-2016, 02:33 AM  
Fstoppers Reviews the Pentax K-1
Posted By clackers
Replies: 173
Views: 16,619
I'd call an 18% keeper rate "useless", Gimbal - and that's Alex Cooke's claim. 😊
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 08-04-2016, 10:18 PM  
Fstoppers Reviews the Pentax K-1
Posted By clackers
Replies: 173
Views: 16,619
Oh, I read, Alex - you said your keeper rate was only 2 out of 11 for lateral movement.

If you really want to compare your skills, now that you're a forum member, I think you should PM @beholder3, who did those shots, or any of our other users who've shot and presented here ducks in flight, aircraft, cars, racing motorbikes, runners or cyclists, and ask whether their keeper rate was 18% or not. :)
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 08-04-2016, 09:59 PM  
Fstoppers Reviews the Pentax K-1
Posted By clackers
Replies: 173
Views: 16,619
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 08-04-2016, 08:57 PM  
Fstoppers Reviews the Pentax K-1
Posted By clackers
Replies: 173
Views: 16,619
In interests of balance, let me say the rest of the review is fine.

In fact, Tony Northrup should have spent the time he did making a sly dig at Pentaxians to instead re-read Cooke's paragraph on lens selection:

One thing to note is that Pentax is not new to the full-frame game, only to the digital full-frame game. This means their massive library of K-mount lenses all work natively on the K-1, including autofocus for those that have it. DA lenses also work on the camera in crop mode, though a few will cover the entire sensor with their image circle and thus will work in full-frame mode. M42 and M37 lenses work with a simple adapter. You can even adapt 645 and 6x7 lenses, though they'll need to have an aperture ring. Much like using 35mm lenses on a crop sensor, you can expect great optical quality from those lenses as the 35mm sensor is only using the center of the medium format image circle. That being said, don't expect every old lens to be up to par on that 36 MP sensor.


His handling of that topic in his own review was horrible.
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 08-04-2016, 08:31 PM  
Fstoppers Reviews the Pentax K-1
Posted By clackers
Replies: 173
Views: 16,619
So do I ... that's funny.

What is it with these 'experts' and their inability to shoot moving objects?

Conveniently, he did not dare state his methods, but perhaps there is a hint when he says: "I could predictably tell where the camera would lose autofocus as I panned across a closer jump while following a rider and horse.".

That sounds to me like he didn't have the skills and just set it to Auto.

If you have 33 points, the closest object falling under *any* of the points is what gets the focus. He should have picked a focus point and tracked the rider.

If he was using back button focus, he also could have released while that obstacle was in the way. If as an unskilled hobbyist I can do that with footballers moving across my line of sight, why can't he for a stationary hurdle?

I took this with a K-30 and Tamron 70-200, much lower cost and tech than what he had available to him. The horses and bulls were in full gallop both laterally and the Z direction, and I had plenty of poles in between - that's not a vignette at the bottom of the pic, that's fencing. :)

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