It's still about the gear you have with you

Florida Suse wrote:

Mike Arledge wrote:

KPM2 wrote:

Hello Mike Arledge

That are very nice tele-perspective-pictures.

And that is my personally point, it's not the gear, it's more what perspective do to the focal length of the lens and sensor size, your gear can give you, with that you can compose or captured a scene.

You can compose a scene with your KP/lens with a K1/lens with the same perspective, you need only an other focal length for a K1. On the other hand, the K1 can give your existing lens (like your prime lens) an other perspective (focal length), and that can makes the K1 so interesting for you, when you have a lens, which you like and where you would be happy to use it in it's other perspective (focal length).

But your existing gear do not restrict you in your choose for a specific perspective.

best regards KPM2

Those are all very good thoughts for sure, and yes, nothing restricted me on this shoot (not even, GASP! Auto focus). The only time I really angst over going FF is for the event work I do from time to time. I do feel a K1 sensor would give me cleaner shots at ISOs above 1600, however, the fastest wide lens is still a 30-35mm 1.4 range lens in the Pentax space. Would love to see a 24 or 28 F2 or faster for our lovely Pentax system.

A few years back I got a sigma 28mm 1.8. Great lens, very sharp and works well on my K5 as well as my K1 (it's a full frame lens). You might still be able to find one second hand. It's also macro, good all around. Would be nice if pentax decided to put out some newer designs in the wider range for lenses. Still, lovely pictures

I actually owned that for a bit but my copy was not useable faster than F2.8 sadly