With these pictures, Ricoh will increase sales of the Pentax K3 Mark III by 2000% minimum

[Valeriu 64]

Dear friends, with these pictures taken by me today, with God's help, Ricoh will increase sales of the Pentax K3 Mark III by 2000% minimum.

Pentax K3 Mark III & HD Pentax 150-450mm, from 10-12 m distance.

Even if you may find my pictures somewhat acceptable, Ricoh-Pentax still has to work on the AF-C algorithm, so that someone can switch to the Pentax system for BIF and wildlife.

For example, it should be done in such a way that the camera chooses the moving subject as the main priority. If a small bird is flying near a metal bar, the camera should choose the bird because it is moving.



Best regards, Valeriu

 

[PentUp]

Great photos mate. Now get the bird to ride a bicycle towards you

 

[Valeriu 64]

Great photos mate. Now get the bird to ride a bicycle towards you

With a Formula 1 race car, it would be more appropriate for the sparrow to go. Only then would we know how good AF-C is.

 

[Mike Arledge]

I am unsure what is going on in this thread. Nothing looks in very good focus to me, nor is the image quality that high…. Please elaborate, otherwise this is very unimpressive to me.

While not BIF, here is what the AF-C of a Canon R6 does with tiny fast moving Warblers.

 

[PentUp]

I am unsure what is going on in this thread. Nothing looks in very good focus to me, nor is the image quality that high…. Please elaborate, otherwise this is very unimpressive to me.

While not BIF, here is what the AF-C of a Canon R6 does with tiny fast moving Warblers.

 

[Valeriu 64]

I am unsure what is going on in this thread. Nothing looks in very good focus to me, nor is the image quality that high…. Please elaborate, otherwise this is very unimpressive to me.

While not BIF, here is what the AF-C of a Canon R6 does with tiny fast moving Warblers.

Dear Mike, my pictures are taken with F5.6, and yours with F8 and F9, here is the difference of details. ;-)

Best regards, Valeriu

 

[Mike Arledge]

I am unsure what is going on in this thread. Nothing looks in very good focus to me, nor is the image quality that high…. Please elaborate, otherwise this is very unimpressive to me.

While not BIF, here is what the AF-C of a Canon R6 does with tiny fast moving Warblers.

Dear Mike, my pictures are taken with F5.6, and yours with F8 and F9, here is the difference of details. ;-)

Best regards, Valeriu

Not that big of difference when you equate that mine is FF, and yours is crop, one stop of DOF is not this big, simply put, the K-3iii is not nailing focus from what I am seeing, or shutter speeds need to be higher. AND I WANT the K-3iii AF to be a winner, but I am failing to see it yet, and it makes me sad

 

[Valeriu 64]

I am unsure what is going on in this thread. Nothing looks in very good focus to me, nor is the image quality that high…. Please elaborate, otherwise this is very unimpressive to me.

While not BIF, here is what the AF-C of a Canon R6 does with tiny fast moving Warblers.

Dear Mike, my pictures are taken with F5.6, and yours with F8 and F9, here is the difference of details. ;-)

Best regards, Valeriu

Not that big of difference when you equate that mine is FF, and yours is crop, one stop of DOF is not this big, simply put, the K-3iii is not nailing focus from what I am seeing, or shutter speeds need to be higher. AND I WANT the K-3iii AF to be a winner, but I am failing to see it yet, and it makes me sad

When I have time I will test again.

 

[KPM2]

Hello both

Valeriu, you use such big crops, that you use only 1/5 of the size and from your 26 MP picture....only ca. 1 MP remain for the picture. With a DA 55-300....you are way over the IQ this lens can show you when you use such a big crop. I think Mike, your pictures are full size (only downsized) or maybe only little crops, where you still use a lot of your Mp of the camera.

best regards to you both

KPM2

I am unsure what is going on in this thread. Nothing looks in very good focus to me, nor is the image quality that high…. Please elaborate, otherwise this is very unimpressive to me.

While not BIF, here is what the AF-C of a Canon R6 does with tiny fast moving Warblers.

Dear Mike, my pictures are taken with F5.6, and yours with F8 and F9, here is the difference of details. ;-)

Best regards, Valeriu

Not that big of difference when you equate that mine is FF, and yours is crop, one stop of DOF is not this big, simply put, the K-3iii is not nailing focus from what I am seeing, or shutter speeds need to be higher. AND I WANT the K-3iii AF to be a winner, but I am failing to see it yet, and it makes me sad

 

[Mike Arledge]

Hello both

Valeriu, you use such big crops, that you use only 1/5 of the size and from your 26 MP picture....only ca. 1 MP remain for the picture. With a DA 55-300....you are way over the IQ this lens can show you when you use such a big crop. I think Mike, your pictures are full size (only downsized) or maybe only little crops, where you still use a lot of your Mp of the camera.

best regards to you both

KPM2

I am unsure what is going on in this thread. Nothing looks in very good focus to me, nor is the image quality that high…. Please elaborate, otherwise this is very unimpressive to me.

While not BIF, here is what the AF-C of a Canon R6 does with tiny fast moving Warblers.

Dear Mike, my pictures are taken with F5.6, and yours with F8 and F9, here is the difference of details. ;-)

Best regards, Valeriu

Not that big of difference when you equate that mine is FF, and yours is crop, one stop of DOF is not this big, simply put, the K-3iii is not nailing focus from what I am seeing, or shutter speeds need to be higher. AND I WANT the K-3iii AF to be a winner, but I am failing to see it yet, and it makes me sad

No, mine are substantial crops of a 20MP FF sensor. I would say I am using less than half of the sensor in all but the last photo were luckily that butterbutt landed very close to me.

Here is an almost 1 to 1 crop - and super high ISO using Lightroom enhance details and Topaz DeNoise.

 

[Valeriu 64]

Hello both

Valeriu, you use such big crops, that you use only 1/5 of the size and from your 26 MP picture....only ca. 1 MP remain for the picture. With a DA 55-300....you are way over the IQ this lens can show you when you use such a big crop. I think Mike, your pictures are full size (only downsized) or maybe only little crops, where you still use a lot of your Mp of the camera.

best regards to you both

KPM2

I am unsure what is going on in this thread. Nothing looks in very good focus to me, nor is the image quality that high…. Please elaborate, otherwise this is very unimpressive to me.

While not BIF, here is what the AF-C of a Canon R6 does with tiny fast moving Warblers.

Dear Mike, my pictures are taken with F5.6, and yours with F8 and F9, here is the difference of details. ;-)

Best regards, Valeriu

Not that big of difference when you equate that mine is FF, and yours is crop, one stop of DOF is not this big, simply put, the K-3iii is not nailing focus from what I am seeing, or shutter speeds need to be higher. AND I WANT the K-3iii AF to be a winner, but I am failing to see it yet, and it makes me sad

No, mine are substantial crops of a 20MP FF sensor. I would say I am using less than half of the sensor in all but the last photo were luckily that butterbutt landed very close to me.

Here is an almost 1 to 1 crop - and super high ISO using Lightroom enhance details and Topaz DeNoise.

Dear Mike this is original size of mine photo with sparrow.

I used full auto points focus for this photos with sparrow.

 

[Mike Arledge]

Hello both

Valeriu, you use such big crops, that you use only 1/5 of the size and from your 26 MP picture....only ca. 1 MP remain for the picture. With a DA 55-300....you are way over the IQ this lens can show you when you use such a big crop. I think Mike, your pictures are full size (only downsized) or maybe only little crops, where you still use a lot of your Mp of the camera.

best regards to you both

KPM2

I am unsure what is going on in this thread. Nothing looks in very good focus to me, nor is the image quality that high…. Please elaborate, otherwise this is very unimpressive to me.

While not BIF, here is what the AF-C of a Canon R6 does with tiny fast moving Warblers.

Dear Mike, my pictures are taken with F5.6, and yours with F8 and F9, here is the difference of details. ;-)

Best regards, Valeriu

Not that big of difference when you equate that mine is FF, and yours is crop, one stop of DOF is not this big, simply put, the K-3iii is not nailing focus from what I am seeing, or shutter speeds need to be higher. AND I WANT the K-3iii AF to be a winner, but I am failing to see it yet, and it makes me sad

No, mine are substantial crops of a 20MP FF sensor. I would say I am using less than half of the sensor in all but the last photo were luckily that butterbutt landed very close to me.

Here is an almost 1 to 1 crop - and super high ISO using Lightroom enhance details and Topaz DeNoise.

Dear Mike this is original size of mine photo with sparrow.

I used full auto points focus for this photos with sparrow.

Interesting, I would have assumes smaller, here is my original file of the wood duck

 

[Valeriu 64]

Hello both

Valeriu, you use such big crops, that you use only 1/5 of the size and from your 26 MP picture....only ca. 1 MP remain for the picture. With a DA 55-300....you are way over the IQ this lens can show you when you use such a big crop. I think Mike, your pictures are full size (only downsized) or maybe only little crops, where you still use a lot of your Mp of the camera.

I used Pentax 150-450mm, with full autofocus points .

Mike Arledge, post: 65147537, member: 1825763"]
I am unsure what is going on in this thread. Nothing looks in very good focus to me, nor is the image quality that high…. Please elaborate, otherwise this is very unimpressive to me.

While not BIF, here is what the AF-C of a Canon R6 does with tiny fast moving Warblers.

Dear Mike, my pictures are taken with F5.6, and yours with F8 and F9, here is the difference of details. ;-)

Best regards, Valeriu

Not that big of difference when you equate that mine is FF, and yours is crop, one stop of DOF is not this big, simply put, the K-3iii is not nailing focus from what I am seeing, or shutter speeds need to be higher. AND I WANT the K-3iii AF to be a winner, but I am failing to see it yet, and it makes me sad

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[KPM2]

Hello Valeriu 64

Thank you that you did post the original size !

I know that you only wonted to show us how good the camera focused on the little and very fast bird and you used very big crops for to show that (the bird itself), but on the other hand, such big crops have a much lower IQ and in your crop size it get even upsampled on my iPad.

best regards KPM2

Hello both

Valeriu, you use such big crops, that you use only 1/5 of the size and from your 26 MP picture....only ca. 1 MP remain for the picture. With a DA 55-300....you are way over the IQ this lens can show you when you use such a big crop. I think Mike, your pictures are full size (only downsized) or maybe only little crops, where you still use a lot of your Mp of the camera.

I used Pentax 150-450mm, with full autofocus points .

Mike Arledge, post: 65147694, member: 1185152"]
I am unsure what is going on in this thread. Nothing looks in very good focus to me, nor is the image quality that high…. Please elaborate, otherwise this is very unimpressive to me.

While not BIF, here is what the AF-C of a Canon R6 does with tiny fast moving Warblers.

Dear Mike, my pictures are taken with F5.6, and yours with F8 and F9, here is the difference of details. ;-)

Best regards, Valeriu

Not that big of difference when you equate that mine is FF, and yours is crop, one stop of DOF is not this big, simply put, the K-3iii is not nailing focus from what I am seeing, or shutter speeds need to be higher. AND I WANT the K-3iii AF to be a winner, but I am failing to see it yet, and it makes me sad

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[LightBug]

Great series of some nest building action. Given the tight crop/small size of bird, I think the image quality is pretty good. Thank you for sharing!

 

[Valeriu 64]

Great series of some nest building action. Given the tight crop/small size of bird, I think the image quality is pretty good. Thank you for sharing!

Thank you, dear Joey!

Best regards, Valeriu

 

[Valeriu 64]

Hello Valeriu 64

Thank you that you did post the original size !

I know that you only wonted to show us how good the camera focused on the little and very fast bird and you used very big crops for to show that (the bird itself), but on the other hand, such big crops have a much lower IQ and in your crop size it get even upsampled on my iPad.

best regards KPM2

I process the pictures with Lightroom 6.

Hello both

Valeriu, you use such big crops, that you use only 1/5 of the size and from your 26 MP picture....only ca. 1 MP remain for the picture. With a DA 55-300....you are way over the IQ this lens can show you when you use such a big crop. I think Mike, your pictures are full size (only downsized) or maybe only little crops, where you still use a lot of your Mp of the camera.

I used Pentax 150-450mm, with full autofocus points .

Mike Arledge, post: 65147715, member: 1825763"]
I am unsure what is going on in this thread. Nothing looks in very good focus to me, nor is the image quality that high…. Please elaborate, otherwise this is very unimpressive to me.

While not BIF, here is what the AF-C of a Canon R6 does with tiny fast moving Warblers.

Dear Mike, my pictures are taken with F5.6, and yours with F8 and F9, here is the difference of details. ;-)

Best regards, Valeriu

Not that big of difference when you equate that mine is FF, and yours is crop, one stop of DOF is not this big, simply put, the K-3iii is not nailing focus from what I am seeing, or shutter speeds need to be higher. AND I WANT the K-3iii AF to be a winner, but I am failing to see it yet, and it makes me sad

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[Joe Bagadonuts]

I think they need pics of people moving, not birds.

 

[JeremieB]

Hello both

Valeriu, you use such big crops, that you use only 1/5 of the size and from your 26 MP picture....only ca. 1 MP remain for the picture. With a DA 55-300....you are way over the IQ this lens can show you when you use such a big crop. I think Mike, your pictures are full size (only downsized) or maybe only little crops, where you still use a lot of your Mp of the camera.

best regards to you both

KPM2

I am unsure what is going on in this thread. Nothing looks in very good focus to me, nor is the image quality that high…. Please elaborate, otherwise this is very unimpressive to me.

While not BIF, here is what the AF-C of a Canon R6 does with tiny fast moving Warblers.

Dear Mike, my pictures are taken with F5.6, and yours with F8 and F9, here is the difference of details. ;-)

Best regards, Valeriu

Not that big of difference when you equate that mine is FF, and yours is crop, one stop of DOF is not this big, simply put, the K-3iii is not nailing focus from what I am seeing, or shutter speeds need to be higher. AND I WANT the K-3iii AF to be a winner, but I am failing to see it yet, and it makes me sad

No, mine are substantial crops of a 20MP FF sensor. I would say I am using less than half of the sensor in all but the last photo were luckily that butterbutt landed very close to me.

Here is an almost 1 to 1 crop - and super high ISO using Lightroom enhance details and Topaz DeNoise.

Dear Mike this is original size of mine photo with sparrow.

I used full auto points focus for this photos with sparrow.

Interesting, I would have assumes smaller, here is my original file of the wood duck

Apart from the fact that these are birds, I fail to see how this comparison is relevant ...

Or to see the interest of comparing IQ of pics sharpened / topazed / lightroomed / etc ...

 

[Mike Arledge]

Hello both

Valeriu, you use such big crops, that you use only 1/5 of the size and from your 26 MP picture....only ca. 1 MP remain for the picture. With a DA 55-300....you are way over the IQ this lens can show you when you use such a big crop. I think Mike, your pictures are full size (only downsized) or maybe only little crops, where you still use a lot of your Mp of the camera.

best regards to you both

KPM2

I am unsure what is going on in this thread. Nothing looks in very good focus to me, nor is the image quality that high…. Please elaborate, otherwise this is very unimpressive to me.

While not BIF, here is what the AF-C of a Canon R6 does with tiny fast moving Warblers.

Dear Mike, my pictures are taken with F5.6, and yours with F8 and F9, here is the difference of details. ;-)

Best regards, Valeriu

Not that big of difference when you equate that mine is FF, and yours is crop, one stop of DOF is not this big, simply put, the K-3iii is not nailing focus from what I am seeing, or shutter speeds need to be higher. AND I WANT the K-3iii AF to be a winner, but I am failing to see it yet, and it makes me sad

No, mine are substantial crops of a 20MP FF sensor. I would say I am using less than half of the sensor in all but the last photo were luckily that butterbutt landed very close to me.

Here is an almost 1 to 1 crop - and super high ISO using Lightroom enhance details and Topaz DeNoise.

Dear Mike this is original size of mine photo with sparrow.

I used full auto points focus for this photos with sparrow.

Interesting, I would have assumes smaller, here is my original file of the wood duck

Apart from the fact that these are birds, I fail to see how this comparison is relevant ...

Or to see the interest of comparing IQ of pics sharpened / topazed / lightroomed / etc ...

Then kindly post some where the K-3iii nails focus and I will be overjoyed to see.