A macro lens would be ideal and it would give very sharp results, but you don't really need to pay so much for macro focussing which isn't needed. The Pentax-A 50mm f/1.7 at about £40 would be ideal.

Don't go for the f/1.4 the field curvature is a lot worse than the f/1.7.

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No... I lived to tell the tale ..... I mean keep my mouth shut

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Being still photographers we are aware of the complex algorithms used to reduce the size of Jpegs. I'm amazed at the butchery used to get 4K video from a bigger sensor. Some of the cheaper cameras only record 2K and upscale to 4k.

From the post above....
https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3537098
All canon DSLr with video except 1dx/c records to h.264,but it captures every 2 o or 4th line to create one whole image for 1080p. it does not take all lines of pixels and downscale to 1080p. and results it soft video..and bad AA..

4K UHD is a resolution of 3840 pixels × 2160 lines (8.3 megapixels, aspect ratio 16:9)

K-1 [35mm Full Frame] JPEG: (36M:7360x4912)
K-3ii JPEG: L(24M: 6016x4000)

So at least 50% of the lines would be dropped if Pentax did the same as Canon are reported to do.

I recently read about a commercial video editor that converted 25fps to 30fps simply by duplicating 5 of the frames

Shut Up and Take My Money


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It's been posted many times the f/1.7 lenses are much sharper than the f/1.4 lenses at wide apertures.

An exception is the Pentax-A 50mm f/1.4 which I always find to be very close to the Pentax-A 50mm f/1.7 except that the f/1.7 has a flatter field.

Back in the film days with the 'M' Series I did some quite exhaustive tests and found that the edges on the M f/1.4 were far better than the edges on the M f/1.7 at around f/4 which was my most used aperture in bad light. So I stuck with the f/1.4 for all 50mm work.

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Reminds me of my youth!

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The lens stabilizer in the Sony FDR-X3000R Action Cam is so awesome, that if carried over to other Sony cams should mean that Sony have the video market to themselves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VLN-S2Xb7c

It's certainly a very capable holiday camera which would probably suit about 90% of people...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8XBJWXld6A

Canon DSLR's are severely crippled for video.....

https://fstoppers.com/critiques/disappointment-after-disappointment-what-wrong-c...

Why Canon lacks a 4K B-cam
http://www.eoshd.com/2017/06/canon-lacks-4k-b-cam/

Poor sampling is used for video ......
https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3537098

Pentax aren't a video company and if Canon can become the top DSLR company without bothering too much about video I don'e see why Pentax need to change.
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Fantastic sequence Mr. Attenborough

Who would have thought the small spider could be so stupid

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PTGui which is about the best Pano program (IMHO) allows masking out objects and people. See .......
http://www.ptgui.com/examples/masktutorial.html

If the PTGui file is saved as a Photoshop PSD file with feathered layer masks it can be done in Photoshop.... See ...... ( 3/4 way down the page )

TIDYING UP THE OUTPUT IMAGE
http://johnhpanos.com/pttute.htm

BLENDING SEAMS IN STITCHED PANORAMAS - PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL
http://www.johnhpanos.com/blending.htm

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Don't some Panoramic programs do this more or less automatically? You highlight what you don't want and if there are 2 to 3 shots in the pano the program uses the background from the shots without the people.

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I thank they guarantee they they won't take away your last knife, fork and plate

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