Good points. I found the buffer size to be somewhat challenging shooting baseball and birds, but I learned to adjust. The focus points can cause some problems shooting sports in that with horizontals the top point doesn't fall at face level. In terms of cost and lens selection he apparently doesn't know that the Tamron 70-200 is available for the Pentax.
Paul via phone > On Jun 19, 2016, at 5:20 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Tony Northrup did a review of the K-1: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIVfRji8JMM > > I can't really argue with any of the points he makes on the various > shortcomings of the K-1. He is also generous with his praise on the things he > likes. > > In short, he loves it for landscape, it sucks at sports, he doesn't like it > for portraiture for the same reasons he doesn't like it for sports (focus > points and buffer size), tethering sucks (USB 2.0 WTF???) > But he does love a lot of the features it has: tilt screen, gps, wifi ... > > He makes a good point on lens availability and cost. I think that will change > over time. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > 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.
