Well, OK the K3ii has a thing for mikes. I'd try using a single point sensor or, at least, one with fewer sensor points. J Sent from my iPhone
> On Oct 10, 2017, at 2:12 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > > > Jack Davis wrote: >> Hi, Larry. In what way is the K1 >> focusing better or faster than the >> K3ii? Thanks! > > The biggest way for me is that it doesn't obsesses over microphones the way > the K-3 does. For example only a few of my musician photos from last weekend > have the microphone rather than the singer in focus. I don't have any > quantitative data other than that, but my gut feeling is that it does seem to > be a bit faster, a bit more accurate, and most importantly a bit more precise > in following the selected focus point. > > When I'm using the long lenses, particularly outdoors, I still use the K-3ii > because I'll crop anyways, it gives more dpi on the sensor, and in good light > the sensor quality differences are barely noticable. > >> >> J >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Oct 10, 2017, at 1:39 PM, Larry Colen<l...@red4est.com> wrote: >>> >>> In many many ways the K-1 is an amazing camera. If all I did was portraits, >>> landscapes and still lifes it would be damn near unbeatable, especially for >>> the price. >>> >>> However, for action photography, it can really suck donkey balls. The >>> focusing is a huge improvement over the K-3ii, but the focus points don't >>> cover nearly enough of the screen, especially if you want to place critical >>> compositional elements at the "third points". Despite the improvements over >>> the K-3, focus speed is still way too slow, especially compared to when >>> I've shot a friend's Nikon 810. >>> >>> My biggest gripe is the bus speed. Did they really think that people would >>> buy a full frame camera and always shoot JPEGs? I was photographing dance >>> competitions this weekend. Things happen fast, unpredictably, and often in >>> rapid succession, particularly when there is more than one couple dancing >>> at a time. After about a minute or two the buffer will fill up, and then >>> take something like five minutes to empty. Once it fills up, it takes >>> something like 30 seconds before it's ready to shoot again, and I have no >>> idea of whether there's room in the buffer or not. I just have to press the >>> shutter and wonder whether it's not locking focus, or just still emptying >>> the buffer. >>> >>> Gah! Every time I try to shoot action, I'm tempted to switch to Nikon. >>> Unfortunately, there's about 15,000 reasons why I can't. >>> -- >>> Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> >> > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
