Sounds like a hood choice, Enjoy! Paul
> On Apr 7, 2022, at 12:08 AM, John Francis <jo...@panix.com> wrote: > > > As some of you may remember, some five months ago I decided that > the K3iii, while a nice camera, wasn't tempting enough to get me > to spend that amount of money on a new APS-C camera body. > I was already finding that carrying a camera bag with my K5, the > 60-250, and a selection of other items (generally one or other of > the 16-50 or 50-135, and maybe the 50/1.4) was getting tiring by > the end of the day, so I was looking for a way to lighten the load. > I'd looked at the Olympus bodies, and was leaning towards either > the M5 or possibly the M1, when Olympus decided to drop the price > of the M1X by 40%, making it only a little more expensive than the > M1 (and $300 less than Pentax were asking for the K3) for a body > that was specifically tailored for what I was most interested in - > Motorsports or wildlife photography. > > So I jumped, and picked up the M1X and the 40-150/2.8 zoom (which > gave me pretty much the same field of view as the 60-250, which had > become my most-used lens). > > I haven't done a great deal of photography in the five months that > have elapsed since then, but it's all been with the M1X. I've just > about become accustomed to the fact that almost all the controls > work exactly the way the Pentax controls don't (I have to turn the > dials in the opposite direction for many functions, the assignment > of the two thumbwheels on the body to control shutter and aperture > has the two functions interchanged, the lens release button is on > the other side of the mount, etc., etc.) Fortunately, though, the > M1X is amazingly reconfigurable - most of the vast number of buttons > spread over the body can be re-assigned to different functions (and > there's an easy way to swap the functions on those two thumbwheels), > > One thing I have found out, though, is that it's a little too easy > to get yourself stuck in a corner. With the Pentax bodies all you > have to do to reset the camera to a known state is to turn it off > and on again. The M1X, though, remembers the state it was it when > you turned it off, and goes back to that state when you turn it on > again (although there's probably a way to change that behaviour, too). > > Last weekend I decided I was going to stick with the lighter system. > I knew I wanted something wider than 40mm, but I wasn't sure whether > to go for the 12-40/2.8 or the 12-100/4. I eventually decided to go > for the 12-100, and add a 2x TC to use with the 40-150 to give me a > two-lens system of 12-100/4 and 80-300/5.6 (roughly comparable to a > range of 17-425 on my K5 - giving up 1mm at the wide end, but gaining > a little more reach than the 350mm I got with the 60-250 & a 1.4x TC). > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
