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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-18-2018, 03:50 PM
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Indeed, on all points. I loved my Sony A850, but it was an old school camera. I loved my A7R, but it had its issues, and while the ability to use any lens ever made was very cool indeed, the performance of wide angles was , uh, problematic, and indeed you needed to get yourself a very small lens (like a Pentax!) to have the lens and adapter combo remain small. Other lenses, and pretty much all the modern ones, were hardly small. While the total package was smaller than a K1 and native lenses, it wasn't that much smaller---smaller enough to make a big difference.
But then, people should take what I say with a grain of salt, because I'm one of those types that thinks a camera can be too small....
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-15-2018, 01:07 PM
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It's needed in events like I do, dinners and receptions at museums, because no one is ever really still, and you can't give the press anything with blur. And the museum lighting can be very dim. There's more to events than weddings....
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-15-2018, 09:48 AM
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Well, as someone who needs to do events on occasion, I would say that until we have super clean iso 12,800 or better, it's much safer when shooting an event to use a flash. Not only can one be surer of the amount of lighting, but it's far easier to balance in post consistently. Also, remember that the subject action is what needs to be frozen in these situations, and flash does that. I have tried my best to do w/o flash, and have been rewarded with very low "successful" shot rates. That you managed to get a shot or 2 successfully w/o flash isn't really pertinent in this situation---and I agree with you that flash is intrusive!
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-14-2018, 06:22 AM
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It's interesting that poster dbclaff (I think that's the right spelling) at DPR, who is apparently the person responsible for Photons to Photons, currently has an open call on DPR's Pentax SLR forum for more samples from the K1mkII.
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I truly don't think that's what's going on here. DPR had its moments of bad behavior back in Phil Askey's day, before Amazon was a twinkle in the eye of DPR. What's going on IMO is arrogance, which Askey had in spades, and it's in DPR's DNA, since Askey hired fellow Brits, and they moved with DPR to Seattle. And it perpetuates in some of their hires, Rishi a shiny example.
It came across in the old days as New-Brit snarkiness, but I actually think it's a holdover from general old school British arrogance in many things (I worked for a British company for a while). Historically, it is at the root of their colonialism and empire as well as their class consciousness, and these problems continue to this day in lots of ways. Let me step out for a sec and say that Americans are equally messed up in lots of ways, although this situation just reeks of pure Brit to me. I'm an anglophile in many things, but this area is the big downside.
You don't see this sort of thing at other review sites (other problems pertain...). What we have here is a complete failure (and it most certainly is not the first time!!!!) to openly acknowledge an "oops!" with a bit of humility. Read the DPR staff responses in the review comments section and you won't see even a whiff of "oops" or humility.
If anything, someone from Amazon should send them a stern email to fix the controversy, because controversy is the last thing any corporation wants. Amazon could care less what brand sells---just that there's volume!
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-13-2018, 08:50 AM
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Once again you have demonstrated with your thoughtful, rational, clear, and concisely reasoned post why you are so valuable here at Pentax Forums. Kudos, again.
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