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Gvie up on SD1? Pentax K-1/ar7ii? Need advice.

Started Mar 30, 2020 | Discussions thread
mike earussi Veteran Member • Posts: 9,440
Re: Gvie up on SD1? Pentax K-1/ar7ii? Need advice.
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Points to consider:

I considered the K1 when it first came out as my second camera but the lack of high quality fixed lenses put me off. I do pano stitching and near perfect lenses are a requirement for high quality pano stitches. But they have recently announced a 85 f1.4 which hopefully is the start of a high quality lens series.

I've seen direct comparisons of the K1 to the SD1M and even though the K1 resolution is higher in pixel shift mode it still has the same Bayer difficulty of picking up subtle color and tonal variations that the SD1M can see and Bayer can't, and using the SD1M with pano stitching I can have both.

DR is something the K1 is much better with than any Foveon chip. Every camera system has its trade offs, ultimately you have to decide which features are the most important to you.

As for your wide angle lens problems, I've never had any using Sigma's 10-20 f3.5 and the 8-16.

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Sigma SD1 Merrill Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG Macro Sigma 17-50mm F2.8 EX DC OS HSM Sigma 50mm F1.4 DG HSM | A Sigma 24-35mm F2 DG HSM Art +2 more
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