I've shot canon, nikon, panasonic, and fiddled with the A7 and a few fuji cameras in the past. The fujis are great photographic tools and I can see the appeal. The rest: not so much. I hate the canon and nikon gestalt really and find pentax to be perfect. The dual edials and iso and comp buttons clustered together makes one handed use a total breeze. When I first picked up my K-7 I knew that I had found a camera with the ideal layout for me. The K-3 is a good step forward and I've come to be ok with the reduction of metering to a button and the AF to be kind of quirky compared to the k-5 where switching between single point and a spread was a complete effortless action. The live view button is a PITA though. It is a good place for it in landscape, but in portrait I often bump it with my forehead. Doh. I've learned to just tap my forehead into the camera again if I bump it. I would almost prefer that it was a movie record button and that the lever would flip between live view and OVF. Then again the availability of movie mode with a flip of a lever had me really interested in shooting a lot more video. Its a real shame the k-3 lacks SR in movie mode and has such a low bitrate though. Hoping that the K-3 II or whatever improves on this.
The pentax cameras have been the ones that have always delivered on IQ for me. They are also the ones that most consistently leave a smile on my face. I know they have limitations, but for me, those limitations are not deal breakers at all. I'm very glad to see AF consistently improving with every new camera too. On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 5:15 PM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 4:02 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Having handled Nikon and Canon cameras from my experience Pentax ergonomics >> are generally superior. > > Since i shoot both Pentax and Nikon i can say thats fairly true. I > used the Canon a friends, for a bit and hated the feel of it and fro > some reason the placement of the shutter realeas button. It just > seemed, well, in the wrong spot by mm's. > > Dave > > >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada > > -- > 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. -- 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.
