Eric, if I may add my two cents here. The 28mm is wider that 50-200, so by projecting more (wider angle of view) on the same sensor size (Fuji and Pentax have both sensors of very similar size) - you get an impression of sharper picture. The "livelieness" of the picture is too subjective a term to be able to reason about it.
I have gone similar path - Pentax K-5 is my so far the last Pentax camera I've been using. Then I bought into Ricoh GXR system that takes Leica primes natively and bought two Zeiss primes for it. Then I had to move to Olympus m43 system due to my personal problem. I've recently registered with 500px and so in order to choose what to post, I am looking through great many of my photos over all those years, starting with *istD and ending with Olympus EM-1. What seems to me now is that all those changes in what I was thinking of as "right" picture or "right" rendering is an acquired and variable taste. At one time I thought that K10D was all I needed. Then I really liked K-5. Then I "realized" that Ricoh GXR was supreme. Then for a period of time I really preferred Olympus... Now I seem to be back to Ricoh. I think, that all these tools give different results and as time goes by my own sense of what's aesthetically pleasing changes. So, it seems you're started on your way. I can only wish you godspeed and all the enjoyment you can have on the go. No offense here, but Pentax is not a religion. It is just a tool, albeit very capable and nice tool, but there are other tools out there and so there is no reason not to learn about them and be able to use them to your maximal advantage. Just my pixels... Back to lurking mode. Boris On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 1:48 AM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > At one time I would not have considered any equipment other than Pentax. A > little over two years ago I bought a Fuji X-Q1 compact to take with me on a > trip to Italy that was going to include a week on bicycles. I was impressed > with the images I got with it. Also never would have considered a > camera—other than a compact—without a view finder. I ended up getting > myself a Fuji X-M1 mirrorless and a 28 mm lens. Since doing so I’ve become > comfortable with not having a viewfinder. The LCD screen gives me the same > information I’d get in a viewfinder. My only complaint is that it’s > sometimes difficult to read the screen in bright sunlight. > > Yesterday I took my Pentax K-5 with the DA 4-5.6 50-200 zoom and the Fuji > X-M1 with the 28mm lens with me to the graduation ceremony. I used the > Pentax during the ceremony to get shots of my subject from a distance and > the Fuji for closer range shots of her and her family interacting with > others after the ceremony. Not the first time I’ve noticed it, but I was > just really impressed with the difference in the images I got. Those from > the Fuji are markedly sharper and “livelier,” those from the Pentax duller > in comparison. > > Maybe I just don’t know how to use the Pentax? > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > eew...@bellsouth.net > > "You keep on learning and learning, and pretty soon > you learn something no one has learned before." > > - Richard Feynman > > > -- > 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. -- Boris -- 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.
