I like these, great example of their capabilities!

Am loving these. Great stuff.

Thanks for this, what a great topic, execution and follow up explanation video. It's all great and I really appreciate the effort and inspiration.

Did you use a shutter speed of 1/100th because the motion would be 'frozen' due to the short flash duration?
Normally you'd get motion blur at that speed, but your photos don't have this issue. #flashnovice

Thanks.

Yeah, here in NZ and Australia, our plugs are much smaller than the UK, and don't have fuses in the plug at all.
Not saying that's better or worse, just it's different.

Example here would be:




Usually the only thing to check is the frequency and voltage on the bottom of the charger, to confirm it's suitable for your location.

Wow that's good, congratulations!!

Definitely want one of those purple fringing tamrons, the 50 - 300 or whatever range it was.
Those things were solid and weighed a ton compared to the more plastic (but optically better) Pentax equivalent.

Nice, have a great weekend everyone 🍻

Title got me thinking a bit, and have always felt the Pentax manuals (and menus to some degree - same concept) were very engineering/technical focussed, but lacked a translation document to suggest when you might want to use a particular feature.

Example being say tracking focus on the K-3. Depending on the situation, you might want the first shot to be in focus first, or fire before focus confirmation has been obtained. You might want focus hold to be on if the bird is periodically going behind branches that catch the focus attention or you might be photographing a cycle race where you don't want any focus delay. You may want to use all 25 focus points or just the centre 9 etc.

All these options exist, and that's great, but it takes a lot of trial and error to find the combo that works, (and forums are awesome help for this...), but it would be great if some use case scenarios were included alongside the technical bits, to explain how some settings interact, and what a sensible config would be for different scenarios. Or to convey what the design intention was etc.

If not the manual then support with some training videos. Not sure what Pentax has been up to lately on the youtube side of things?
Just checked, and no uploads in 6 months for ricohimaginguk

The KP was an interesting hybrid between what had previously been two quite different product lines.
It had the focus system from the K-3 range but not the burst/twin card slots/buffer, Pixel shift / high iso with low noise / and dials from the K-1, but the battery and shutter from the K-70 range.

Those who like it like it (favourite saying ) but it's not the same type of camera as the K-5 K-3 etc, so those looking for this could be disappointed.

I too am very keen to see what the next Pentax camera will offer, otherwise I might simply go the mirrorless route personally. I'm not sure how other people feel, but i've held onto my K-3 for quite some time in anticipation of a replacement that appeals to me.

Ah yes the Fisher Price you styled brick by Mark somebody. Yeah didn’t go down so well.

Also have to throw in the mix that a lot of cameras are doing eye AF these days and it’s incredible.

Over the years I’ve had a lot of on the go portraits that have ended up with eyes out of focus. Lots with the forehead in focus because that’s what the camera AF opted for, which I couldn’t tell via the smaller APS-C viewfinder.

Bringing some smarts to a 2020 camera that could assist with this would be much appreciated. I’m not always on a studio with live view and focus peaking to confirm eye focus, so it would be great if this was available in some form.

Can’t see it being successfully implemented in DSLR mode, so it would have to be available in live view mirrorless mode I guess. Requires object identification and tracking, so not aligned with Pentax strengths.

Just another idea on the list whilst we wait for something to emerge.

Come to think of it the Corona virus issues may well delay this release even further now.