On 2/2/2012 1:28 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
On Feb 2, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
Cotty<[email protected]> wrote:
how the hell are you
supposed to use it with anything longer than (say) 150mm lenses?
There's this thing called a "tripod".
:-P
I see the grin, but to address this in practical terms (or at least in my
ego-centric terms:-), I couldn't possibly use a tripod with my 60-250 all of
the time, and it requires the shooting technique Cotty suggested. Handheld with
the K-01 would be next to impossible. That said, I wouldn't mind having one
with that 40mm lens as a travel camera, but I couldn't justify the cost for
that alone.
It seems that most everyone that complains about some feature or other
are looking at the camera bodies and complaining that they don't do
everything, rather than there are situations where a particular body
works better than other ones.
I like the Q, but the sensor is too small, and it doesn't work well with
my K-mount lenses.
I like the K-5, but it's too expensive, and while Live View is very
handy at times, the delay between shutter press and taking a photo is
way too long.
I'd love to have a 645D, but it won't fit in my pocket, and the 645
glass is way too expensive.
The K-01 is nice and cheap, and just small enough with the new 40 that
it would be easy to carry around, but it wouldn't work well with my bigma.
Many of the people complaining that the new body, that will probably hit
a street price under $600, won't work in every situation, are the same
people that would turn around and drop $800 on a specialty lens, be it
macro, telephoto or whatever.
Let's look at where it could come in handy. You're taking a trip, and
you want to have a spare body, but space is pretty limited. Besides, the
K-5 is just a little too big to conveniently fit in a jacket pocket, or
a fannypack, when you're walking around a strange city and don't want to
carry your camera bag.
You do a lot of macro photography, particularly of things close to the
ground, where you can't easily look through the viewfinder.
You do a lot of indoor photography, in low light. You can't use the
focus assist light because that's too distracting to the subjects, or it
makes it hard to take a candid when the camera shines a green light in
someone's face. It's really too dark to focus manually through an
optical viewfinder, so you need a live view that actually works.
You, or someone close to you, wants a camera with better image quality
than most point and shoots without dropping $1,000 on a body, but the
person using the camera isn't really a camera person and really wants
features like face detection focus.
There are a lot of cases where this actually would be the right tool for
the job. Complaining that the K-01 doesn't do everything well is like
complaining that an 8" crescent wrench isn't very good for hammering in
nails when you're framing a house.
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Larry Colen [email protected] (from dos4est)
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