The photographs does support your comment that one can get "near DSLR quality" with it. Especially if "one" knows what is he doing ;)
Bulent --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://patoloji.gen.tr http://celasun.wordpress.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/bulentcelasun 2015-02-22 13:16 GMT+02:00 Toine <to...@repiuk.nl>: > First shots with my "new" Pentax MX-1. This little gem shoots DNG! > > JPG is as bad as it gets from point and shoot cams. DNG gives near > DSLR quality, also thanks to the very nice optics. Distortion is very > noticable and a little CA and purple fringing wide open. Lightroom can > correct everything. > Firmware: Focus peaking is missing and file management, like deleting > files, is different compared to other Pentax cams. Some reviews > complain about slow writing speeds. Maybe my SD card is helping. > Startup speed is very fast and the lens jumps out of the body. > Firmware is 1.0 and no updates available. Looks like this was a one > shot try of Pentax to grab a market share for this type of cam and it > failed. (Maybe) the design is a little over the top. It looks and > feels like a vintage MX which reduces the potential buyers to old MX > lovers. > > > http://www.repiuk.nl/essays/2015/02/mx-1/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
