On 2026-01-10 12:17, John Francis wrote:
The FA* 250-600 has already gone to a good home, though :-)
:-)
I'm lucky in that I just do photography for fun. I don't need the
absolute best performance available, especially when I've got cameras
with performance that would have been mind boggling not that long ago.
I'm at the point where I've got an insanely complete kit of K-mount
lenses. The only thing I lack is the time and place to play with them.
Using my K-3 III for more actiony stuff, and the K-1 when I need a wider
angle of view, I don't find that I often miss a shot because the cameras
don't perform well enough.
If there was a good adapter to use K-mount autofocus with a mirrorless
body, I could see myself being tempted to get that setup, because there
are times that there are distinct advantages of EVF over OVF.
The way people whine about autofocus performance almost makes me wonder
how I managed to get any usable shots the first 35 years I did
photography.
To be honest, I did put katzeye screens in my first several Pentax DSLRs
because I did better with manual focus, and a manual focus screen than I
did with the autofocus.
A couple weeks back, after taking my OM-5 II with me on a bicycle ride,
I did post to the Pentaxian group on FB to be careful what you ask for.
In decent light my DSLRs are so much more pleasant to use than the EVIL
u4/3 EVF. And then there is battery life.
Most of my complaints with the K-1 could be fixed by pulling in tech in
the K-3 III. I'd like more focusing points, I'd like a faster bus so
that the image buffer didn't get filled up after just a few frames. The
thumb selector for focus points is nice.
My biggest complaints in general, particularly with the 3-III is some
mind bogglingly bad choices that they made in the User Interface. For
example, in manual exposure being forced to bracket aperture rather than
shutter speed. They really need to optimize the UI for people who want
to be able to control what their cameras do rather than people that just
want a large, heavy, expensive cell phone camera.
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Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc
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