Pentax FF Dead, Maybe

But I didn't write this

I thought that only the famous and well thought of were misquoted and not oiks like me

I wondered why you had changed your name to 'Horst' Stuey, it did seem a little bit odd

It's not a bad quote though, so maybe you should have taken the credit for it!

Cheers
David

I think he meant Angstrom Units.





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Most of that is in the editing, but yup you can get a great shot on anything.

As Smeggy says you can get a good shot on anything. As the old saying goes. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Some people can get the greatest photos from the crappiest equipment because they have the eye for it. my friend has a VERY EARLY digital canon. My grand daughter has a Fuji bridge camera (not that these are crappy) and they both do really well. I on the other hand have had to learn and practice hard to achieve anything. Therefore although having the best equipment I can afford doesn't make me the best photographer I think it helps me a little bit.
CHEERS Vic.

I agree with you there Vic. There were several images (prize winning) in the exhibition I visited which to be honest I wouldn't have in the house, because although technically brilliant, I suppose, the subject did nothing for me. "One man's meat" etc.

Typo corrected

I think Vic's right that the equipment does help a little bit, because the best tools are always the easiest to use. The best workers can of course overcome less good tools, but ironically beginners will find the most benefit from using the best.

I did a recent EPZ blog showing my very first pictures with a Kodak Popular Brownie 620 Box Camera, certainly not the best tools!

Nice one Algi.
CHEERS Vic.

Depends what you mean by "best" versus 'easiest'

Image quality ( in a technical sense ) isn't proportional to ease of use. I don't find the K-5 hard to use in the slightest, but in overall terms my sony and nokia compacts are much easier to use overall not least because they are tiny and more transportable in comparison and you just switch on and press the shutter button.

But yes equipment does of course make some difference, not onyl for a technically better image quality but for being able to capture images that some cameras can't. For example having a fast AF, high ISO performance or range of focal length and DOF. There's no way my sony or nokia can compete with a K-5 for those terms

I think sometimes many of the arguments we see on the web stem from a failure to define the terms we are using. Even, as you say, "easier to use" needs to be defined so we are all thinking about the same thing. We've already thrashed out that "best" can mean many things.

In the context of the quote I was meaning best in terms of quality of manufacture, precision etc. So, for example, the best ruler is the one that's straighter and has more precise markings. It might be metal instead of plastic, it might have finer engraving for superior accuracy. Thus easier to use in that it will be easier to draw a more precise straight line of a given precision.

In this sense, I find the DSLR tends to win for me. It's easier to produce a quality result from a wider range of subject matter. It's not easier to carry than a compact or camera phone, which require much more care to maximise the quality they are capable of.

back to FF ....


Maybe Pentax should go down a FF compact route ....

Pentax film SLRs have been very, what I could call, compact. Perhaps Pentax should makes something that looks like the Pentax MX-1, has Pentax K mount like the Pentax K-01 and has the, cough, Sony 24MP FF sensor.

Hmmmmm Pentax!

Would anyone buy a Pentax FF compact that was smaller than the K-01 ?


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It's all very well, but what we end up with is a small fiddly camera body with a huge lens on front that makes the overall volumetric bulk pretty much the same. That is, too big for a pocket, so we still need a camera bag. I don't see any advantages and all the disadvantages.

The K-01 was ideal if you wanted a full quality interchangeable lens camera but not optical viewfinder. Great for small product photography and still life macro and anything else you would use one of the smaller cameras for.

I have handled a K-01 and it works rather well. The small CSCs are a different beast, the only sensible one for me being the Q series.

I so agree, and as soon as funds allow I will be a owner of a K-01, in some daft colour combo I feel.

I can remember when it was launched all the negative feedback, all the bad reviews and everybody stating it would fail, and guess what it did and Pentax pulled the plug after 12 months.

Now it looks like it may well be ending up as a classic Pentax, I was one of those who thought what's the point in that and thought that right up to the point it was pulled, then I tried a friends of mine and now I want one.

Strange world we live in