> On Nov 17, 2021, at 6:01 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > Switch to an iPhone 13 Pro Max. It will provide excellent 11 megapixel photos > with wide, normal and short tele lenses. Lots of nice features like portrait > and panorama modes. Excellent video too. Good in camera editing as well. Oh, > and it has phone and web browser functions, When you need big glass or higher > res use your Pentax,
Experience with the amazing—to me, of course—Fuji XQ1 compact, which I purchased to keep my kit light for a 2015 bike tour in Italy, caused me to start graduating away from Pentax. I kept the XQ1, purchased a Fuji XM1 and a Fuji XF 27/2.8 lens, and gradually sold off my Pentax bodies and lenses. Subsequently, when on a month spent on the Blue ridge Parkway I found myself without batteries for the Fuji equipment when both of the battery chargers purchased for the trip failed to work, I resorted to my iPhone 6s as my backup camera and was stunned at the quality of the images I got. On three trips to the Big Bend area since then the iPhone has been my only camera. I have one photo from those trips enlarged and framed on my wall now. There could be more. The only thing I longed for with the 6s was a telephoto lens to bring some of the distant landscape scenes of Big Bend up closer. Recently I upgraded the 6s to an iPhone 12 Pro, mainly for the telephoto lens it provides. I find it helpful in other settings but it won’t meet the need I feel in Big Bend landscapes. Should I get the opportunity to return to Big Bend I will consider going back to Pentax for this: https://us.ricoh-imaging.com/product/vm-6x21-wp-monocular/ It’ll perhaps be admitting my lack of technical sophistication, but I find the editing capabilities of iPhone cameras and Apple’s Photos app fully adequate to my needs. I will hang onto LightRoom as a way of preserving the editing I did with my Pentax and Fuji photos but rely on Photos from here on out as my primary photo editing and organizing software. What were you referring to, Paul, when you mentioned the 13 Pro Max’s “phone and web browser functions”? ---------------------------------------- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] "It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
