On Apr 24, 2012, at 8:30 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: > On 4/25/2012 00:45, Larry Colen wrote: >> Why do you say that? Granted I was just looking at the photos on the >> back LCD, but they looked pretty good. > > That's why: > http://www.fredmiranda.com/5DIII-D800/index_controlled-tests.html > >> That does make a difference. > > Here is a tricky one for you, sir. Both 5Dm3 and D800 are presently > approximately thrice as expensive as K-5. Are they three times better???
Not tricky at all. If you are photographing for the web, in good light, they aren't any better, and because of their size, possibly worse. Likewise if you need image stabilization on a lens that is faster than f/2.8. If you need to use a lens that isn't made for Pentax, but is made for Nikon or Canon, then they are infinitely better. If you need an f/1.4 lens with the FOV of 50mm on 24x36 or the FOV of 30mm on APS, they are better. If you are printing photos at a size where the increased resolution makes a difference, then they are better. You cannot accurately say that one camera is better than another camera. You can only say that it is better for certain things. If one camera does something that another camera doesn't, then it is infinitely better for that task. Jostein has both a K-5 and a 645D. In theory the 645D is a better camera, but he still uses the K-5. As a matter of fact, I'd wager he shoots more frames with the K-5 than with the 645D, because there are many things the K-5 is better at. Likewise, look at Walt and his K-x and K100D. > >> Pentax seems to have done a good job. My biggest gripe with the K-5s >> button layout is that I can't hit the "display button" with my right >> thumb, and have to use my left hand. > > Well, yes. But it's been this way since *istD, so that a habit may have been > developed here... It's not that way on the K-x. I got spoiled with it, I could do just about any button pressing task on it with just my right thumb. > >> My biggest gripe with the buttons is that while the Fx button will >> put the camera into an occasionally useful mode, pressing it a second >> time won't put it back to the way I had it before, meaning that it's >> one button to go out of my default, but several presses to get it >> back to something generally useful. > > Well, I find it one of the less useful features - these programmable buttons. > There is one option that is extremely useful, but they mis-implemented it > badly. You can program AF button to cancel AF while pressed. That would be > excellent but in case of screw-driven lenses it doesn't retract the > screwdriver - so you're literally screwed. Yet for DA* 16-50 it displays MF > in the viewfinder and you're indeed in MF mode... Go figure... I use the AF lockout all the time. I prefocus with half a shutter press, then hit AF so I get instant shutter response. You are right, it would be better in many cases if it disengaged the screwdrive. > > As for Fx button - I keep on RAW/RAW+/once set up and try not to press it > anyway... > > Boris > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
