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Comment by JAK posted on Continuing my quest to better myself experimenting with I.C.M. all single images and hardly any treatment added except for the normal pp. at 09/11/2016 - 22:34
It's interesting in that focus tracking and video are important to me.
I find my Pentax cameras frustrating at best during the children's sports days, and have to ore focus my shots at a point I know they'll run over etc. I'd love some tracking to assist with that.
Video wise I want to benefit from all the Pentax points mentioned above. Is love to have better video (real SR returned again, focus peaking that works during recording etc).
Improvements in these areas would be appreciated by me.

Comment by JAK posted on K70 Review at 09/11/2016 - 10:42
I do not know the exact number of actuations but it will be less than 10,000[/img]
https://www.camerashuttercount.com/
If you're not sure about it have a read of this:
http://www.howtogeek.com/218244/how-to-check-a-dslrs-shutter-count-and-why-you-s...
Also, "Raw image quality that is among the best the APS-C sensor size has to offer...... the K-70 trumps both its mirrorless and its DSLR competion." Sounds good too, and that's from DPR who are notorious for knocking the brand.
The review also hints the camera's autofocus works better with the new PLM lenses. Oh, and they gave it a silver award!
Comment by JAK posted on K70 Review at 08/11/2016 - 23:54
Intentional Camera Movement John, not to everybody's taste, i suppose you could say the creative part of photography, some interesting results to those who find it interesting, a bit like Marmite
Perhaps you have to like Marmite to appreciate I C M (I C M = Intentional Camera Marmite?)
I'm not intending to sound rude, but I've had colour slides coming out like that and the best use I could find for them was to save the mount for something else! I'm positive had I entered any in a club photographic competition it would have been first to go with the comment, "Nothing's sharp, why did you enter it?"
Maybe times have changed but you can't unlearn the knowledge you picked up in the past. I can see the value of a blurry movement picture in a story sequence where perhaps a fugitive is running through the woods to escape capture, but not as a stand alone image.
I can also appreciate movement of trees in a photo may give the impression of a windy day, but at least the background and forest floor would have to be sharp. That might require combining several images to achieve. But a pure blurry photo just looks like it had the wrong exposure (I've had many of those) or the photo took itself accidentally between other intended shots (I can do that too) but I wouldn't normally like to embarrass myself publishing them to the world, other than to show things to avoid in a camera demonstration.
To me I C M is when one would do a panning shot of, say, a vehicle which itself may not be perfectly sharp if it was a slowish exposure but would have a definite blurry background. The blurriness tells the story of the vehicle speed. Another might be to zoom in on a vehicle coming towards you which achieves a similar, although different, result.
If I hadn't come from the 'old school' which says 'something has to be sharp in a photo' how would you sell me the idea of this new approach to I C M? I'm presuming this is now taught in art schools, or is it purely experimental?
Thanks for hearing me out.
Comment by JAK posted on Continuing my quest to better myself experimenting with I.C.M. all single images and hardly any treatment added except for the normal pp. at 08/11/2016 - 23:41
Comment by JAK posted on Continuing my quest to better myself experimenting with I.C.M. all single images and hardly any treatment added except for the normal pp. at 08/11/2016 - 20:44
I'm not sure what happened with no.4 - is it spots of rain on the lens or something else?
Comment by JAK posted on Saturday night in Newcastle at 08/11/2016 - 19:29
The K-1 has nowhere near the image noise of the K3 variants and as regards APS-C mode will be closest to the K5iis. Some regard the IQ of the K-3 variants as being inferior to the K-5iis (but I'm not in that camp myself and still use my K-3 on occasion.)
Getting FF lenses would make sense in the longer term if you get a K-1, but you may not need or even want to ditch your DAs. Some DAs are FF in disguise!
Comment by JAK posted on K1 in crop mode. How is it for you? at 08/11/2016 - 15:42
Often the ultimate IQ depends on the processing of the image and your work flow to achieve that. Given the same lens on either body I would say the final images should be close but with slightly better definition from the K-1 due to lack of the AA filter. They won't be the same because they use different sensors, but certainly similar as both come from the same stable.
Comment by JAK posted on K1 in crop mode. How is it for you? at 08/11/2016 - 14:14
If you indicate which lenses you are concerned about I'm sure someone will have tried them by now and report about their level of compatibility if that might be of interest.
Comment by JAK posted on K1 in crop mode. How is it for you? at 08/11/2016 - 12:30


I wouldn't try to sell you this, i think your mind has already been made up as for teaching it in college etc. i would have no idea, i can see where you are coming from though about the blur and all the hard work we put in to our photography to get our images as sharp as we can, as with most things i can only say to each their own, there are a few of us who have experimented and the results are interesting? i for one will still be having more of a crack at it, so maybe don't watch this space in the nicest possible way