On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > 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 has an unusual portrait shooting style, and he bases his recommendation that the K-1 is poor for portraiture off that. Well that says much more about the reviewer than the reviewed for me. His argument about the system price of body plus three must-have lenses on all-Pentax body and glass versus the Nikon or Canon and the cheapest 3rd-party glass out there. Ummm... a trifle skewed? He has valid arguments but he seems to just end up on the tired old thing about "you really want to stay with Canon and Nikon because ... Canon and Nikon." And you know, tethering is weak. It's weak or non-existent on all Pentax cameras, 645's included. But I'd bet good money that the audience that watches his reviews don't tether. Tethering is for studio shooters who are doing well paid ad campaigns or fashion shoots, on the whole. They are in a whole different league. It will help Pentax to fix that eventually, but I think his harping on that one specifically when stuff like poor AF speed are out there is pointless. -- -bmw -- 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.
