On 6/19/2016 3:20 AM, Larry Colen 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.
It doesn't suck at sports, but there are cameras out there that are much better. I don't understood the complaint regarding portraiture, but I don't machine gun portraits as my studio lights take a small amount of time to regenerate, and if I don't have the subject's cooperation, I'm probably not shooting portraits anyway. Manual focus on the K-1 is easy enough and if I can't put a focus point right where I want it, I can always crop a bit after the fact. He's right about it being a landscape shooters dream camera, which fits in with Pentax's philosophy since before I started shooting the brand as an outdoors shooter's tool.
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