Good for you Paul! Congratulations both on the new knee and the new (camera) body.
I have been sitting here thinking of all the reasons why I don’t need the K-1. I have the 645Z for landscape & macro, I have the K-3 for birds and other wildlife. And as a convenient carry-along to dinners and parties. But then I realized! Since the K-1 will shoot in crop-sensor mode for the DA lenses, and assuming that the cropped-in-camera images are at least equal to the K-3 APS-C images, the K-1 would substitute nicely for the K-3 and give me the advantage of newer (better) SR, focusing, etc. plus built in Astrotracer and wifi... I am not going to jump in right now, but I will be looking forward to seeing some comparison shots with, e.g. the DA*50-135 on the K-3 vs. the same lens on the K-1 in crop-sensor mode. Exciting times! By the way, it is really trivial, but I do so much appreciate the fact that the K-5, K-3, 645Z, and now the K-1 all use the exact same battery. It may even have been the same back as far as the K-10 or K-20. The Pentax engineers really seem to understand the mantra “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it…" stan > On Feb 18, 2016, at 9:42 AM, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is so exciting, and I’m very happy for Pentax! The price is amazing! > Though I’m going to have to wait a bit, this camera is definitely on the > list! Layout of buttons and such looks great! Wifi, GPS et al! Really > cool! Can’t wait to see your photos, Paul! > > Go Pentax! > Cheers, Christine > >> On Feb 18, 2016, at 8:01 AM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I had planned to wait awhile for the price to drop before buying a K1, but >> at $1800, I figured, why not now! Ordered from B&H because they know how to >> ship cameras and are good when there's a problem. >> Since I had expected to spend 3K for the K1, this opens the door for the >> 24-70/2.8 real soon. >> >> Paul via phone -- 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.
