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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
07-14-2017, 04:05 PM
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I have a K-3 and a K-1. I bought the K-1 for two reasons. I wanted better quality at high ISO since I shoot a lot of indoor events. And, I also wanted the ability to do wired tethering to Lightroom. It turns out that the wired tethering is painfully slow due to Ricoh using a USB 2 connection instead of a USB 3. I really did not need the 36 M pixel higher resolution of the K-1. Now my 70-200mm lens actually only gets me 200mm, instead of the 300mm equivalent of the K-3. So, if I take a picture of a speaker with the K-1 at an event where I need a real close up, I now need to crop in Lightroom to get similar results to the K-3. And the crop from the K-1 is likely to be lower resolution (but better quality). I always shoot with two bodies for events. For indoor events I have a 70-200mm 2.8 lens on the K-1, and a 17-50mm 2.8 lens on the K-3. For outdoors events I put the 70-200mm lens on the K-3 for the extra zoom of the crop sensor, and put a 28-75mm 2.8 on the K-1. The files from the K-1 are also much bigger, so you are going to need more storage. If I were doing it over I might be inclined to go with the K-P since the images look to be about as good as the K-1, the price is much lower, the files are smaller and I have a number of lenses to go with the APS-C camera.
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