K1 II and Best cameras for landscape photography in 2021 article

Paul_R_H wrote:

I'm not a great believer in pixel shift. It's great for shooting brick walls when you're using a tripod. But in real life? Harder to justify.

It's also great for shooting still lives, buildings and interiors without moving people and landscape on very still days.

First you need a tripod.

Obviously but most landscape photographers just use tripods as a matter of course.

Second you need the subject not to move. No trees or vegetation blowing in the wind. No water. Unless you layer the files later and scrub out the relevant areas of three of the shifted images, thus nullifying the pixel shift effect.

People say pixel shift is good for high-ISO images. But again, if you have a tripod and the subject's not moving, just lower the ISO duh.

I've had a k3 ii for years and never used pixel shift except as an experiment the first day I had the camera.

That is a personal experience and that's fine but remember, it only applies to your choices, other people might well have different requirements and a different experience.

So to me pixel shift isn't a factor in appraising Pentaxes as landscape cameras. There are other advantages, mind – light weight, robustness, huge choice of lenses because MF is fine for landscape, et cetera.

Pixel shift useful for studio at base ISO I guess.

Paul

DuncanM1 wrote:

I downloaded the test images for the K1 II and the Nikon Z7II and the Pentax in pixel shift mode is just completely superior and yet the Nikon gets the nod as best camera? What gives? I can understand that for action shots the Nikon might be better, but for landscape resolution is king and the Pentax is far, far superior.