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LOL - heaven forbid it shows up any moire
Comment by Dodge69 posted on How are 'you' getting on with the K-5 IIs? at 30/12/2012 - 00:34
Smeggypants wrote:
The K-5II does improve the AF over the K-5 and that's something I would like, but can't justify upgrading to.
Agreed. Not interested unless I need a new body.The K-5II does improve the AF over the K-5 and that's something I would like, but can't justify upgrading to.
The K5IIs is undoubtedly a improvement, just not compared to previous updates. The K5IIs is appealing if you are coming to the system, or have money to burn for improved AF.
But the K5IIs is around the 7D's price range just now, if not invested in a the system and AF was your concern, then there is still no contest.
Best thing about these somewhat stunted K5II/s releases is how they have made the K5 mk1 a fantastic bargain, that's what I would advise a (money conscious) friend to buy anyway.
I would conjecture that the K5's tantalizing escalation towards the qualities of a FF sensor makes the idea of owning a K5IIs all the more desperate to some. However it still falls short, as would a 24mp APS-C if released next.
Tiny percentages of improvement, for obliquely larger sums of money of course - as always.
Comment by Dodge69 posted on How are 'you' getting on with the K-5 IIs? at 29/12/2012 - 01:52
Think I'll wait for the SLT version
Comment by Dodge69 posted on When APS-C just aint big enough at 28/12/2012 - 12:14
johnriley wrote:
It purely depends on the intent.
If you are producing a record photograph and it is intended as such, then it should be made to accurately show things as they are.
If you are producing a creative image then you do whatever creativity demands.
If you are making honest images with honest intent, then that's all fine.
What's to add after that? If someone's really having a crisis of conscious then apropos it should be clear how to proceed with the presentation of the particular image.It purely depends on the intent.
If you are producing a record photograph and it is intended as such, then it should be made to accurately show things as they are.
If you are producing a creative image then you do whatever creativity demands.
If you are making honest images with honest intent, then that's all fine.
Comment by Dodge69 posted on To Clone, or not to Clone... at 22/12/2012 - 13:54
Algernon wrote:
You don't need the adapter just Dremel a bit off the lens
mount!
LOLYou don't need the adapter just Dremel a bit off the lens
mount!
Algernon wrote:
If Benjamin Kanarek can produce covers for Harper's Bazaar that
compete on news stands against other covers shot on large
format you would have to be very conceited/pretentious to
even dream that you need FF
https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/new-harper-s-bazaar-beauty-cover-38386
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LOL,good point.If Benjamin Kanarek can produce covers for Harper's Bazaar that
compete on news stands against other covers shot on large
format you would have to be very conceited/pretentious to
even dream that you need FF
https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/new-harper-s-bazaar-beauty-cover-38386
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ALL these cameras are so good nowadays, if you've got a Lumix, K5, 5D, or a Nikon D800E and you can't get a decent shot with one of them, it AIN'T the camera.
Comment by Dodge69 posted on Pentax Full Frame at 18/12/2012 - 12:18
LOL - Damn! If only I could afford the adapter as well.
Comment by Dodge69 posted on Pentax Full Frame at 16/12/2012 - 21:33
Smeggypants wrote:
Here's a question for those moist over a Pentax FF ....
How will a FF camera improve the standard of your photography over what you can get from a K-5 or K30?
LOL, deserves it's own thread rather than being stuck in another lame 'Pentax FF COMING SOON!!' one.Here's a question for those moist over a Pentax FF ....
How will a FF camera improve the standard of your photography over what you can get from a K-5 or K30?
cabstar wrote:
Seriously APS-C sized sensors will not be manufactured after five years time..
Certainly admire your optimism for human progress. Bladerunner was set in 2019 though and 2001 Space Odyssey was set in uhh..Seriously APS-C sized sensors will not be manufactured after five years time..
More worryingly, given Pentax's record, if the market moved that fast they're in deep doggy doo trouble!
Markets have varying degrees of action and some move not so much by consumer demand and expectations, but by what the suppliers decide the want to release.
They could have released cheap FF years ago if they wanted too, but that's not how they wanted to play the game.
Mobile phones, supermarkets, cars - lots of company's lots of competition.
Computer and cameras updates are so incremental, when the market is essentially controlled by a cabal. Intel/AMD/Microsoft = Canon/Nikon.
Given this dreamy optimism regards cheap FF bodies and lenses, I would have to ask why would the cabal tarnish their 'high end' market? Will it just be a FPS and Megapixel arms race after that? Or will Canikon be releasing new Medium Format cameras to create a new 'high end'?
LOL, hey that would put Pentax back in the game!
They best way for prices to drop and new tech to be implemented is if there's actually competition and in the higher end camera world this is utterly lacking.
Best thing for the game would be for Pentax, Sony and Samsung to step up. But will they, is it even feasible for them to break the cabal?
Comment by Dodge69 posted on Pentax Full Frame at 14/12/2012 - 23:21
Mannesty wrote:
Do you still hold this opinion even though it has been reported from reliable sources that Pentax are working on a full frame product for release after 2013?
Absolutely. Hey if they release a FF, fantastic, praise the lord, can't wait! But you can't blame me for being a skeptical, particularly after doing a Forum search for 'Full Frame', seeing how far back and extensive the rumor mill goes, and seeing how they are full of daydreams, delusions and fantasy. Do you still hold this opinion even though it has been reported from reliable sources that Pentax are working on a full frame product for release after 2013?
cabstar wrote:
With ff bodies now starting around £1500 it will be inevitable that sensor manufacturers drop apps-c from their range
With ff bodies now starting around £1500 it will be inevitable that sensor manufacturers drop apps-c from their range
Inevitable if your talking about 25 years from now when we've got in medium format quality in our mobile 'phone laptop life device tricorders' then yeah I'm sure APS-C may be gone by then.
APS-C will remain for the foreseeable future for the same reasons it has succeeded. Smaller, cheaper bodies and lenses. As such it will continue to be a mid-market range and part of the 'consumer development path'.
FF bodies can drop in cost all they want, but I guarantee you the lenses won't.
Wouldn't the average Pentax user need over 10k to convert their range into convert into Canon L glass?
You can drop the FF body prices to a pound if you want, personally I'm still snookered.
Comment by Dodge69 posted on Pentax Full Frame at 14/12/2012 - 18:40
Oh dear, wonder how many Full Frame topics have been started on here. Also wonder how many are repeats of a previous rumor as this one is.
Here's some old 'negative' ones for some balance...
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IMO - Pentax will not release a FF DSLR, simply because they would have to create a whole FF lens range. If they do, we will not see it for a long long long time.
Positively however, there has been a change in the game, the Sony RX1.
Unlike Canikon, Sony do not have a big DSLR range or legacy to put at risk, so they are free to release such a game changing machine. I have little doubt they will release a interchangeable version of the RX1 also.
IMO this is the way Pentax should go. A compact interchangeable lens FF. They certainly don't have a FF DSLR range to put it at odds with, and it would take advantage of arguable their biggest assets the FA Ltds! In this respect Pentax are ahead of the game for once! A compact FF to enter the Lecia/RX1 market and finally the FA31, 43 & 77 will have found a real home.
Here's some old 'negative' ones for some balance...
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IMO - Pentax will not release a FF DSLR, simply because they would have to create a whole FF lens range. If they do, we will not see it for a long long long time.
Positively however, there has been a change in the game, the Sony RX1.
Unlike Canikon, Sony do not have a big DSLR range or legacy to put at risk, so they are free to release such a game changing machine. I have little doubt they will release a interchangeable version of the RX1 also.
IMO this is the way Pentax should go. A compact interchangeable lens FF. They certainly don't have a FF DSLR range to put it at odds with, and it would take advantage of arguable their biggest assets the FA Ltds! In this respect Pentax are ahead of the game for once! A compact FF to enter the Lecia/RX1 market and finally the FA31, 43 & 77 will have found a real home.
Comment by Dodge69 posted on Pentax Full Frame at 14/12/2012 - 17:45
It's the Daily Ranger where I come from, but if your from the east either will do.
Considering it's current incarnation, I'd love to see the rebuild....
Bet you'd still have bus loads of asian tourists turning up every hour...
'Ohhh Hally Potter Castle, velly magical!'
Considering it's current incarnation, I'd love to see the rebuild....
Bet you'd still have bus loads of asian tourists turning up every hour...
'Ohhh Hally Potter Castle, velly magical!'
Comment by Dodge69 posted on Daily Record amateur landscape photograhy competition at 07/12/2012 - 17:31
