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Anyone prefers K-1 over the K-1 II?

Started May 30, 2020 | Questions thread
Holger Bargen Veteran Member • Posts: 4,911
Re: Anyone prefers K-1 over the K-1 II?
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Dear Manzur Fahim,

I would like to remind you of a strange attitude of Pentax not delivering thier cameras with settings of their cameras for best results but just with mdeium settings.

Thus, you should tweak the Pentax camera first for your personal needs and not use it just "out of the box".

I found the little program that comes with the camera pretty useful for this job. Just shoot a few RAWs from every day objects and situations of your work. Then go into the program and find most settings of the camera there. Now, you can play around with the settings of the JPG machine and make it your personal favourite. Without this process you will hardly like the Pentax JPG output.

There is also an opition for imporved portraits in the settings (two types) that can help to get good portraits without post-processing. But these options include some more sophisticated calculations and it will slow down the speed of the camera even more. This is the reason why I still do this work in post-processing. Maybe K1ii will be faster with this option.

Best regards

Holger

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