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Why not Pentax?

Anonymous Fri 24 Jun 2016 22:12:08 No.2869671 View View Reply Original Report

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Waht's the the fuzz about Nikon and Canon? Why not Pentax?
I mean it's cheaper, it's OK and you can pretty much go to whatever fleamarket and get some cool old objectives.
Yeah, in some aspects it sucks compared to "big two" but, why not? Everything is OK with it. Cheap as fuck, yuge range of old cheap objectives, a lot of nice features and the sensation of not being like everybody else...

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 24 Jun 2016 22:15:11 No.2869674 Report

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>why not the gear thread?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 24 Jun 2016 22:16:00 No.2869675 Report

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Oh, and did I mention the weatherproofing and durability... It's like Nokia phones in the 90's... Unbreakleble

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 00:28:46 No.2869730 Report

Quoted By: >>2869731 >>2869830

It has a huge range of old cheap lenses but

A. A lot of those lenses are optically garbage
B. Most of them are manual focus
C. See B, it's not useful for wildlife or sports

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 00:30:22 No.2869731 Report

Quoted By: >>2869829 >>2869855

>>2869730
Oh yeah, also forgot

Dem tiny viewfinders

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 01:02:16 No.2869737 Report

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Pentax doesn't know how to made functional AF modules. You know, the one thing that makes SLRs special.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 06:08:30 No.2869817 Report

Quoted By: >>2869851

I've used a k30, k5-ii, and a k3 to photograph fast moving trains for about 4 years now. Never had a problem with auto focusing.

Watched others with canan rabals and babbys first nikon menu dive with their one dial and miss shots because they couldn't change settings fast enough.

The pentax auto focus system is fast enough. A canon rabal menu diving isn't. Real world experience.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 06:36:54 No.2869829 Report

Quoted By: >>2869850

>>2869731
u wot m80

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 06:39:44 No.2869830 Report

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>>2869730
>A. A lot of those lenses are optically garbage

Most of the smc pentax-a are fantastic optically as well as being able to use electronic aperture control

>B. Most of them are manual focus
>C. See B, it's not useful for wildlife or sports

That's like complaining about tweezers not being good at driving nails

Also the fa series has some lenses with pretty great AF

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 08:13:22 No.2869850 Report

Quoted By: >>2869852

>>2869829
>k1
>0,7x magnification

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 08:15:13 No.2869851 Report

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>>2869817
>The pentax auto focus system is fast enough.
No it isn't. Pentax AF is a bad joke.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 08:20:05 No.2869852 Report

Quoted By: >>2869857

>>2869850
Still at 100% coverage

Also most dslrs have .7x viewfinder magnification

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 08:28:04 No.2869855 Report

Quoted By: >>2869856

>>2869731
the fuck are you talking about. pentax has had the largest and brightest viewfinders compared to most other similar aps-c cameras and you're an idiot if you think they're bad for wildlife

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Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 08:32:03 No.2869856 Report

Quoted By: >>2869858

>>2869855
Sorry, some of us are just used to higher standards

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 08:39:27 No.2869857 Report

Quoted By: >>2869859

>>2869852
Maybe 10 years ago that was impressive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 08:42:08 No.2869858 Report

Quoted By: >>2869860

>>2869856
>d300, d2hs
>similar aps-c cameras

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 08:45:31 No.2869859 Report

Quoted By: >>2869898

>>2869857
the d610, d750, and d810 have the same coverage and magnification

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 08:52:32 No.2869860 Report

Quoted By: >>2869861

>>2869858
If you prefer D7x00 has the same viewfinder module and similar AF system as the D300.

I love these quotes from an interview about the K-1 design.

>"It was a challenge to provide a large, bright viewfinder that allows the photographer to view 100% of their composition, enable manual-focus accuracy even when focusing on stars in the night sky and easily visualize the bokeh effect of large apertures," an optical engineer tells us."

>"Also, unlike previous Pentax DSLRs, the K-1 viewfinder is equipped with an LCD overlay allowing for more information to be viewed in the viewfinder, such as APS-C crop, grids and multiple focus points."

Man, I'm really glad they finally figured out how to make a viewfinder from 10 years ago.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 08:55:42 No.2869861 Report

Quoted By: >>2869871

>>2869860
>Man, I'm really glad they finally figured out how to make a viewfinder from 10 years ago

you keep repeating this. what makes it so archaic?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 09:23:06 No.2869871 Report

Quoted By: >>2869895

>>2869861
I'm not repeating, that's some other guy who also isn't buying your bullshit. The point is Pentax is just now catching up to where other manufacturers have been for years in terms of viewfinder coverage, and more importantly, overlays and the amount of information displayed in the finder. If we look at this chart

http://www.neocamera.com/article/viewfinder_sizes?sort=size

we can see that other than a .01 difference in magnification they don't have any advantage over other cameras in their classes. Since Canikon and Pentax BOTH use tiny finders and pentamirrors in their entry level bodies I'm not going to compare those.

Pentax didn't have 100% coverage, ~.95x magnification until the K-3 in 2013. Meanwhile, the D300 had 100% ~.94x mag back in 2007. Oh, but that's a pro-tier camera! Ok, fine. The D7000 had the same viewfinder in 2010.

So no, I don't believe Pentax has superior viewfinders at all. They've always been playing catch-up and while they've done a good job getting 100% coverage with the K series they've never held any kind of edge over Canikon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 10:27:48 No.2869895 Report

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>>2869871
>Since Canikon and Pentax BOTH use tiny finders and pentamirro
Canon use much larger OVFs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 10:43:02 No.2869898 Report

Quoted By: >>2869899

>>2869859
1D, 1DX, 1DX II all have 0,76x magnification.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 10:44:26 No.2869899 Report

Quoted By: >>2869900

>>2869898
they also cost twice as much as any of the previous examples

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 10:45:32 No.2869900 Report

Quoted By: >>2869901

>>2869899
Well you get what you pay for.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 10:47:19 No.2869901 Report

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>>2869900
very slight increase in performance?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 10:49:26 No.2869903 Report

Quoted By: >>2869904

>>2869901
Better OVF, drastically better AF, good enough sensor, fast frame rates. And lenses in a whole other league.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 10:51:23 No.2869904 Report

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>>2869903
at four times the price

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2016 13:07:39 No.2869927 Report

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Nikon already perfected the SLR with the F3.

Call me when I can get a digital camera with all the features of the EOS 3.

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