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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-28-2016, 06:12 AM
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"Yes... hard to Swallow I know." - this expresion made me think that you needed to make a statement about the K-1's af. Or not? :)
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-28-2016, 05:19 AM
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For birds in flight it’s best to keep image stabilization turned off. Any professional wildlife photographer can confirm this.
IS should not be used for tracking subjects in motion (except panning), since the IS will try to keep the image stationary. When IS is enabled (regardless of mode) your autofocus system may take longer to initially acquire the subject (especially for birds with chaotic flight.). This can result in more out of focus images.
If you have a lens that has a range limiter switch, you need to set it to an appropriate value for the bird.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-28-2016, 04:49 AM
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You managed to understand completely wrong what I was saying. I said 2 things:
1. I don't know how good, fast and precise is the K-1's af. My comments were about the primitive af that I have on my 6D, the one that K-3 or even KS-2 will "wipe the floor with it". :)
2. Wildlife photographers can confirm (or not) that a small bird like the European Bee-eater with his chaotic flight it's difficult to catch in focus and keep it in the frame for 3-5 consecutive shots.
I'm glad that K-1 has an improved af over the K-3 II. Great images by the way. :)
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-28-2016, 02:30 AM
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I'm not sure about what type of shooting you refer to when you implied the in-lens stabilisation into discution, but I want to make only one comment about this. If I need a shutter speed faster than 1/500s (which I always need when I'm shooting BIF) I turn off the in-lens stabilisation. It's useless when you shoot fast action and you need 1/1600 or higher shutter speed.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-28-2016, 01:45 AM
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I'm aware that lenses are an important factor when comes to tracking, but I have quite good results with a Tamron 70-300mm (which is a 400$ lens). The only reason I don't buy one is because is to short for BIF and because I also have the 70-200mmL lens. And there is another reason, it's quite cheap to rent telephoto lenses (15-20$ per day). You know that in Romania there is no chance to rent Pentax lenses, unfortunately. :(
Here is a crop from an image taken with Tamron SP 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di VC USD. It's from a series of 6 images, all in focus. And again, this kind of images are more than easy to shoot, even if the bird is coming toward me.
But let's not pollute anymore this topic with a debate between 6D and K-3 II. You are more than welcome to come with me and Razvan on a "hunt" and I will let you chose the telephoto lens for me. :)
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-28-2016, 12:37 AM
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Keep in mind that Canon 7D (the old version) has only 19 af points and is still better than K-3 II in terms of tracking. I don't know how good and fast and precise is the K1 af, but I can shoot all day long side by side with any K-3 II or K-S 2 and I can guarantee you that at the end of the day you would realise that the hardware is there for the 6D. :D
Single point or all af points activated, doesn't matter. The important thing is to go home with good pictures. :)
I've tested pretty hard the af from both cameras (K-3 II and 6D) and I have more confidence in shooting with 6D when comes to BIF, despite the slower fps (6D has only 4.4 fps). :) It locks the focus faster and it hold it on the subject quite well. My problem with 6D is his slower fps. :( If the 6D Mark II will have 7 fps and at least 20 af points at a 1.600$ range price, then I think Canon will take my money again.
On topic. Tony Northrup it's obvious in love with Canon and anyone can identify that in his reviews. I saw a single review on Youtube about K-1 which I found to be interesting and quite accurate. It's the one from TheCameraStoreTV.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-27-2016, 10:59 AM
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Quite primitive the Canon 6D af... really? :D These are images taken with 6D. And I have a lot of them. I had K-3 II and it's not close to 6D's af in terms of tracking. However, it's much better built than 6D and has more fps, but the af is slower.
This is European Bee-eater. I'm sure that wildlife photographers know how difficult is to catch a small bird like this in flight, especially when flying toward you.
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