Re: Pentax Forums in depth review of the K-01
Until I try the damn thing, this is still my opinion: http://www.camera-enthusiast.com/news/photo-technique/form-over-function-or-why-the-pentax-k-01-was-a-bad-idea/ For those who don't want to read, it's about the opposite of Mark's :-) Cheers. —M. \/\/o/\/\ -- http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment On 13 March 2012 14:46, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: http://www.pentaxforums.com/reviews/pentax-k-01-review/ Short form: Not for everyone, or every situation, but great for where it works Raw performance equivalent to K-5 Much improved video AF mostly works Excellent upgrade camera for someone moving up from a compact point and shoot Not ideal for long lenses, but excellent with smaller lenses for a walkaround camera. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Pentax Forums in depth review of the K-01
Miserere miser...@gmail.com wrote: Until I try the damn thing, this is still my opinion: http://www.camera-enthusiast.com/news/photo-technique/form-over-function-or-why-the-pentax-k-01-was-a-bad-idea/ Is that one of those Kennyboy-style reviews written without ever using the camera? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Pentax Forums in depth review of the K-01
Ha ha ha. Ain't a review, Mark, it's an opinion on the concept of the K-01. I sincerely hope that many misguided folks (and videographers) purchase this camera so Ricoh can make money to fund the growth of the GXR system :-) —M. \/\/o/\/\ -- http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment On 19 March 2012 13:15, Mark Roberts postmas...@robertstech.com wrote: Miserere miser...@gmail.com wrote: Until I try the damn thing, this is still my opinion: http://www.camera-enthusiast.com/news/photo-technique/form-over-function-or-why-the-pentax-k-01-was-a-bad-idea/ Is that one of those Kennyboy-style reviews written without ever using the camera? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Pentax Forums in depth review of the K-01
The overly enthusiastic Steve Huff has reviewed it and wasn't too impressed: http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2012/03/16/the-pentax-k-01-camera-review-design-masterpiece-or-design-fail/ The camera was almost useless as with the bright sun I could not compose my shots AT ALL because the LCD was washed out about 90% If Pentax would have put in an EVF it would have made this camera MUCH more fun and useful. the K-01 has superb IQ but for me, it loses some ground in design and usability and I am a big fan of usability. I have ZERO complaints on the image quality of the K-01 as this is its BEST feature. High ISO with this camera is superb. ISO 12,800 is about on par with the Leica M9 at ISO 2500. The Pentax has decent AF speed but [...] with the 40 2.8 is fast but it is no speed demon. Part of his conclusion: I can see it now, Pentax fans are going to be giving me heat for talking bad about the camera design. I will hear about how just because it doesn’t look like a rangefinder that I do not like it. Well, that is not true at all. I like many cameras that are not designed like a rangefinder but in my opinion, and again, this is only MY opinion, the design is a fail. It’s too bulky, too fat, looks like a toy and is not comfortable to shoot. It doesn’t feel like a camera I can “connect” with. Design IS indeed important to ME and I feel a camera has to have all of the elements that bring it together to form one mean, lean, shooting machine. It's never a good thing when Steve Huff doesn't like a camera cos the man never met a camera he didn't like...or so I thought. Cheers, —M. \/\/o/\/\ -- http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment On 13 March 2012 14:46, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: http://www.pentaxforums.com/reviews/pentax-k-01-review/ Short form: Not for everyone, or every situation, but great for where it works Raw performance equivalent to K-5 Much improved video AF mostly works Excellent upgrade camera for someone moving up from a compact point and shoot Not ideal for long lenses, but excellent with smaller lenses for a walkaround camera. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Pentax Forums in depth review of the K-01
The Ford O21C is astonishingly ugly. Ugly enough to make it Unique and therefor desirable as a car. The Pentax K-01 follows in that tradition. Whereas Newson is a furniture designer and a lot of what he learned about furniture design carried over to auto design to make it at least ergonomic as furniture, (though I'll bet repairing it would be a bitch), nothing about the K-10 gives me any confidence that it's ergonomics will be particularly good in a camea. On 3/19/2012 12:58 PM, Miserere wrote: Until I try the damn thing, this is still my opinion: http://www.camera-enthusiast.com/news/photo-technique/form-over-function-or-why-the-pentax-k-01-was-a-bad-idea/ For those who don't want to read, it's about the opposite of Mark's :-) Cheers. —M. \/\/o/\/\ -- http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment On 13 March 2012 14:46, Larry Colenl...@red4est.com wrote: http://www.pentaxforums.com/reviews/pentax-k-01-review/ Short form: Not for everyone, or every situation, but great for where it works Raw performance equivalent to K-5 Much improved video AF mostly works Excellent upgrade camera for someone moving up from a compact point and shoot Not ideal for long lenses, but excellent with smaller lenses for a walkaround camera. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Pentax Forums in depth review of the K-01
Ok, maybe my expectations were too high. Probably I have read some reviews of recent Oly's or Panny's with AF 'almost as good if not better than DSLRs' and I expected something similar instead of something average. Anyway, I can live with it in a mirrorless, but not with the mentioned LCD/EVF constraints, specially in such a (relatively) 'big' camera. - Mensaje original - De: Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com Para: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net CC: Enviado: Miércoles 14 de marzo de 2012 15:50 Asunto: Re: Pentax Forums in depth review of the K-01 From my reading of the review, it doesn't say that the K-01's contrast detection AF is much worse than anyone else's, just that it's worse than phase detection AF. This is still true in general for mirrorless system cameras. I'm not saying it's great but merely that they didn't compare the contrast detection AF with anything else. On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Jaume Lahuerta jlah...@yahoo.com wrote: - Mensaje original - De: Larry Colen l...@red4est.com Asunto: Pentax Forums in depth review of the K-01 http://www.pentaxforums.com/reviews/pentax-k-01-review/ It is a bit sad to read that autofocus is still Pentax Achilles' heel, now with contrast detection AF. But for me, and after my experience with a Sony NEX, the real problem of this camera is the lack of articulated LCD screen and (at least optional) electronic viewfinder. And this time it is not a problem of space, I would say... Regards,Jaume -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Pentax Forums in depth review of the K-01
- Mensaje original - De: Larry Colen l...@red4est.com Asunto: Pentax Forums in depth review of the K-01 http://www.pentaxforums.com/reviews/pentax-k-01-review/ It is a bit sad to read that autofocus is still Pentax Achilles' heel, now with contrast detection AF. But for me, and after my experience with a Sony NEX, the real problem of this camera is the lack of articulated LCD screen and (at least optional) electronic viewfinder. And this time it is not a problem of space, I would say... Regards,Jaume -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Pentax Forums in depth review of the K-01
From my reading of the review, it doesn't say that the K-01's contrast detection AF is much worse than anyone else's, just that it's worse than phase detection AF. This is still true in general for mirrorless system cameras. I'm not saying it's great but merely that they didn't compare the contrast detection AF with anything else. On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Jaume Lahuerta jlah...@yahoo.com wrote: - Mensaje original - De: Larry Colen l...@red4est.com Asunto: Pentax Forums in depth review of the K-01 http://www.pentaxforums.com/reviews/pentax-k-01-review/ It is a bit sad to read that autofocus is still Pentax Achilles' heel, now with contrast detection AF. But for me, and after my experience with a Sony NEX, the real problem of this camera is the lack of articulated LCD screen and (at least optional) electronic viewfinder. And this time it is not a problem of space, I would say... Regards,Jaume -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Pentax Forums in depth review of the K-01
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: http://www.pentaxforums.com/reviews/pentax-k-01-review/ AF mostly works That would be good for Frank, mostly.:-) Dave -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Pentax Forums in depth review of the K-01
http://www.pentaxforums.com/reviews/pentax-k-01-review/ Short form: Not for everyone, or every situation, but great for where it works Raw performance equivalent to K-5 Much improved video AF mostly works Excellent upgrade camera for someone moving up from a compact point and shoot Not ideal for long lenses, but excellent with smaller lenses for a walkaround camera. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
