I'm a bit late to this but, there are two things that stand out.
1. The K-5 has an AA filter, so the images will require a bit of
judicious sharpening to equal the sharpness of images from the X-Trans
sensor in the Fuji as it doesn't need an AA filter and doesn't have one
due to it's more or less, non repetitive, the color lens pattern.
2. You're comparing a prime lens to a consumer zoom. Now, modern zoom
lenses can often meet or exceed image quality standards set by older
prime lenses but, usually I find that even my SMCP-A 24mm f2.8 seems to
perform better than even modern zooms, though maybe not quite as sharp
as the SMCP-FA 20-35 f4.0, which is an amazing little zoom.
I don't know which 28mm you have, unless you actually have the Fuji 27mm
f2.8 pancake lens, which if you do, is hardly being fair to the Pentax
camera and lens combination. It's reputed to be one of the very best
inexpensive lenses in the Fuji system, while the Pentax Zoom is pretty
good but not even close to being the best. Even the Pentax A 28mm f2.8
should produce better quality images.
Finally you don't mention if you're shooting RAW or Jpeg. Pentax out
of camera Jpeg files are not the best. If you're shooting RAW; with a
little more sharpening and contrast adjustment to the Pentax images you
shouldn't see any marked difference between either camera given roughly
equivalent lenses.
On 12/13/2017 6:48 PM, Eric Weir 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?
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