Took some general shots today with a 45-80mm just to see what it performed like. Some purple fringing in some situations. However, the resolution and detail captured by the 645Z is disturbing.

All hand held and full res jpegs.

full image at 45mm




a straight crop of the moon from the full res image




a straight crop of the far shore (left third) from the full res image




Some trinkets (purple fringing here).




a straight crop of the in focus centre area.




flowers




a crop of the focus point




a bike




a crop of darker detail




I'll be out later with the tripod and the 55mm f/2.8 lens.

The thing is a beast and will bite you if you don't take it seriously.

I'm at a motoring event tomorrow and will be using the Z and my K3.

The ultra shallow DOF is superb.

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US dollars and the deal is at B&H.

I'm now of the opinion that the K5 II will prove to be the pinnacle of the Pentax APS-C DSLR's. Overall, it has the best of all worlds. I was seriously considering an upgrade to a D7100 from my D7000 but after buying the K3 I realised that wasn't the way to go.

Somewhere, there's a balance of just the right amount of pixels for a given area and I think that 16Mp is the sweet spot for APS-C.

I hope that if/when Ricoh introduce a 35mm format DSLR, it will be 24Mp as the current offerings from others are spectacular.....we just need that Pentax magic on our own version.

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A great contrast of colour in this image Andrew. Those greens to the right really stand out and enhance the whole scene.

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I've been watching the posts and images on the site specifically with the K5 IIs. I think the K3 is a great camera but felt I am missing something between the K5 and the K3.

So I have just bought a K5 IIs.


Pentax PEK5IIS
K-5 IIs Digital SLR Camera
Includes Free SanDisk 64GB SDXC Memory Card Ultra Class 10 UHS-1, Pentax D-BG4 Battery Grip for Pentax K-7 & K-5
$230.95 Total Value 1 $596.95 $596.95


Sub Total: $596.95
Shipping: $63.10
Sales Tax: $0.00
Total $660.05


Looking forward to next month as it's busy with events and the K5 IIs will get heavy use.

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Great action and drama here. No. 6 is typical of the freeways here!

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A great beach shot Andrew. I like the foreground lead in. As mentioned previously, lots of detail to keep the interest.

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Very very good images.

Always a pleasure to view real RAW.

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