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Most underestimated camera currently available

Started Mar 4, 2019 | User reviews thread
miles green
miles green Veteran Member • Posts: 7,827
Re: Most underestimated camera currently available
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Tom Lusk wrote:

While I agree that there are probably better camera's in that department and while I have yet to do any action photography with the MKII, I feel that I would have close to 100% keepers rate if I were to do any.

You're being serious?

I agree it's MUCH better than previous Pentaxes.

I've shot my kids doing sports (with the 150-450) and it had no trouble keeping up. I'm not going to count the hit rate, but it was good. I have no idea how it would do photographing a downhill skier at 150km/h.

Regarding frame rate and buffer size, yes it's OK for my needs. I managed to fill the buffer at my daughters dance recital, photographing just my kid, and not the others. The pro shooting a big Nikon next to me seemed to be happily shooting away, taking pics of all the kids. So i would say that he needed the faster performance.

That said, for my needs, including kids sports, the K1ii was very satisfactory. The pro would have been swearing. It's all a question of needs / requirements.

I also managed to fill the buffer shooting an HDR 360 degree pano (using a nice nodal point tripod head). Then i did one with PS, which was better. I calculated i exposed 2.88 gigapixels for that, so some delay is easily excused!

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Miles Green
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