If you are paying attention (there WILL be a written test) you may know that I bought my wife a K-01 some time ago. My plan was to "borrow" it occasionally for astrophotography. She was mostly intimidated by it and seems to greatly prefer her iPhone. She sort of threw me for a loop when she asked if I would mind if we re-gifted it to her best friend who had been pining for one. "Sure, hon!"
Bummer. So I have been desiring Focus Peaking ability and the K-01 was still my LOWEST cost way of getting that feature. So I found a body kit on Pentax Forums Marketplace with 1400 shutter count and it arrived today. It is a beaut. What I did NOT realize is that the K-01 (along with the K-30, apparently) has a very WEAK AA filter. "K-01 has only 1 LPF (Low Pass Filter). Usually LPF consist of 3 layers (2 LPFs and 1 Wave Plate) but they omitted 1 LPF and Wave plate as a result it equips only 1 layer of LPF." Source: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/138-pentax-k-01/181891-k-01-has-only-1-lpf.html See also: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/138-pentax-k-01/205516-k01-have-similar-color-pattern-moire-k5-iis.html and http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/51305860 That is a bonus that I wasn't anticipating and should be a real plus for astrophotography. More to come! -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
