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Got to shoot with the K1 today...

Started Mar 9, 2016 | Discussions thread
OP Sandyramirez Contributing Member • Posts: 625
Re: Got to shoot with the K1 today...

zakaria wrote:

Sandyramirez wrote:

JNR wrote:

Sandyramirez wrote:

Got to shoot a wonderful model from Wilhelmina today using the K1 and the new 24-70/2.8. Many thanks to Jim Malcolm of Ricoh Imaging for bringing the K-1 to NYC so I could shoot it. Pics in a bit after I go through it all. Cannot post a full res as the firmware is still not finalized, but I'm sure you folks will like it.

Overall from the two hours I got to spend with it, the K-1 is an incredible camera. It's on par with the top of the line Canons or Nikons. Seriously I now will get myself one, a great companion to my 645Z.

Feel free to ask questions below. Will be happy to talk about camera controls etc

What's your sense of AF responsiveness and accuracy at first blush?

I'm assuming you only got to shoot with the one lens, so observations will be limited to that combo.

Great question! I really wanted to test that today so I did a lot of jumping across the field of view with the model and fast walking testing both the burst and clear of the buffer and the AF tracking. Using the 24-70 I would call it on par and slightly more accurate than the Canon 1DX. Very fast and accurate tracking, zero hunting even when the model was wearing an all black dress and a hit rate based on what I am seeing in the DNG files of about 97-98%.

The AF responsiveness is in a new league as far as Pentax DSLRs are concerned.

Sounds great!

What about handling noise at 6400 and up?

Unfortunately I didn't really shoot above ISO 320 as we were doing a lot of street style fashion today and I had no need to go that high. If you go to Instagram, Jim Malcolm (@view360) has been doing a lot of high ISO work and can better answer that for you

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