Re: thoughts on the K-1 vs K-3
For my trek through Yorkshire on the Pennine Way next month I'm going to be taking the K-1 (over the K-5) mainly because of the GPS tagging. I never thought I'd use it but it's amazing how wrong I was. It's absolutely brilliant when traveling. Hell, even close to home it's easy to forget where I took a particular shot if there's no identifying landmark in the shot. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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.
Re: thoughts on the K-1 vs K-3
Fortunately I'll never have to make such stressful decisions. Alan C -Original Message- From: Henk Terhell Sent: 14 April, 2018 5:14 PM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: thoughts on the K-1 vs K-3 For me there is also always the dilemma going for a walk: do I take the K-1 or the K-5. Weight/size versus quality. The K-5 with the DA 21/3.2 limited is so conveniently small and fits well under a coat in cold weather, though I see people thinking I am growing a belly. Once I decide to take the K-1 the question comes up whether the ND grad filter should go along, but that implies also the tripod, so I'll take a backpack with more lenses... Never do I put APS lenses on the K-1 following Northrup's advice on YT as there is no gain in pixels. With both cameras I am frequently struggling on focusing so that is not an issue for me. Henk Op 2018-04-14 om 10:09 schreef Larry Colen: I've noticed that lately that when I'm grabbing a camera to have with me when I go out, I've been a lot less picky about whether I grab my K-1 or K-3. Ignoring price, if you happen to have both lying around, there are a lot of ways in which the K-1 is a better camera than the K-3, and a few that the K-3 is better than the K-1. If size, weight and fps don't tremendously matter, then the K-1 is a pretty damn nice APS camera in crop mode. It doesn't have the resolution in APS of the K-3, nor the frame rate, but the focus is better, and its focus points cover much more of the APS frame. In challenging light, or challenging focus conditions, the K-1 does better, not hugely but noticeably so, than the K-3. However, in decent light and for that matter even some pretty lousy light, walking around taking pictures, I can think of very few cases (if any) where I'd look at the final image and be able to tell whether I shot it with the K-3 and 16-50 or the K-1 and the 28-75. To be sure, there are lots of times that to get a particular shot, I really need the larger sensor in the K-1, those are usually night time wide angle shots. Also, when I'm photographing musicians and don't want to get great shots of microphones with blurry musicians in the background, the K-1 far outshines the K-3. But I've recently been surprised to realize how often, for basic shooting, it really doesn't matter to me which camera I grab. I will note that I haven't gotten to the point of grabbing the K-1 and APS only lenses like the 18-250. -- 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. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- 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.
Re: thoughts on the K-1 vs K-3
For me there is also always the dilemma going for a walk: do I take the K-1 or the K-5. Weight/size versus quality. The K-5 with the DA 21/3.2 limited is so conveniently small and fits well under a coat in cold weather, though I see people thinking I am growing a belly. Once I decide to take the K-1 the question comes up whether the ND grad filter should go along, but that implies also the tripod, so I'll take a backpack with more lenses... Never do I put APS lenses on the K-1 following Northrup's advice on YT as there is no gain in pixels. With both cameras I am frequently struggling on focusing so that is not an issue for me. Henk Op 2018-04-14 om 10:09 schreef Larry Colen: I've noticed that lately that when I'm grabbing a camera to have with me when I go out, I've been a lot less picky about whether I grab my K-1 or K-3. Ignoring price, if you happen to have both lying around, there are a lot of ways in which the K-1 is a better camera than the K-3, and a few that the K-3 is better than the K-1. If size, weight and fps don't tremendously matter, then the K-1 is a pretty damn nice APS camera in crop mode. It doesn't have the resolution in APS of the K-3, nor the frame rate, but the focus is better, and its focus points cover much more of the APS frame. In challenging light, or challenging focus conditions, the K-1 does better, not hugely but noticeably so, than the K-3. However, in decent light and for that matter even some pretty lousy light, walking around taking pictures, I can think of very few cases (if any) where I'd look at the final image and be able to tell whether I shot it with the K-3 and 16-50 or the K-1 and the 28-75. To be sure, there are lots of times that to get a particular shot, I really need the larger sensor in the K-1, those are usually night time wide angle shots. Also, when I'm photographing musicians and don't want to get great shots of microphones with blurry musicians in the background, the K-1 far outshines the K-3. But I've recently been surprised to realize how often, for basic shooting, it really doesn't matter to me which camera I grab. I will note that I haven't gotten to the point of grabbing the K-1 and APS only lenses like the 18-250. -- 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.
thoughts on the K-1 vs K-3
I've noticed that lately that when I'm grabbing a camera to have with me when I go out, I've been a lot less picky about whether I grab my K-1 or K-3. Ignoring price, if you happen to have both lying around, there are a lot of ways in which the K-1 is a better camera than the K-3, and a few that the K-3 is better than the K-1. If size, weight and fps don't tremendously matter, then the K-1 is a pretty damn nice APS camera in crop mode. It doesn't have the resolution in APS of the K-3, nor the frame rate, but the focus is better, and its focus points cover much more of the APS frame. In challenging light, or challenging focus conditions, the K-1 does better, not hugely but noticeably so, than the K-3. However, in decent light and for that matter even some pretty lousy light, walking around taking pictures, I can think of very few cases (if any) where I'd look at the final image and be able to tell whether I shot it with the K-3 and 16-50 or the K-1 and the 28-75. To be sure, there are lots of times that to get a particular shot, I really need the larger sensor in the K-1, those are usually night time wide angle shots. Also, when I'm photographing musicians and don't want to get great shots of microphones with blurry musicians in the background, the K-1 far outshines the K-3. But I've recently been surprised to realize how often, for basic shooting, it really doesn't matter to me which camera I grab. I will note that I haven't gotten to the point of grabbing the K-1 and APS only lenses like the 18-250. -- 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.
