madbrain

I think these were great shots. You should see the flying pigeon shots I have shot with my 800mm mirror lens hand-held in manual focus. Now those are shots to be laughed at.

Bob, Those were nice shots. Assuming both lenses are mounted in a FF body (K-1 or K-1 II), and one just uses the FF lens in FF mode, and the crop lens in crop mode, rather than a separate crop body : ...

Lyff, I have both DA50/1.8 and FA50/1.4 . On my K-1 II , the FA50 is very soft at F1.4 . However, when stopped down to f/1.8, it is sharper than DA 50 . And FA50 is sharper than DA50 at all...

I think it's odd that no one other than Pentax has released a FF camera in the $2000 price range recently other than the Sony A7 III (not A7R III).
There were really no other good choices from...

Adam007,
Yes, love that Sigma 70-300 with the K-1 II . I have the APO version - there are two. APO is supposed to be better. Very happy with it.

Roland, there other sensor sizes like micro 4/3 too. And probably other ILCs with different sensor sizes I missed too.

A7R III is not in the same price range as either K-1 or K-1 II. Lenses are not either.

I was able to buy a K-1 II + grip + Lumix GX85 + many lenses for about $3000. Best value in terms of stills...

If you have adequate lighting, 100K is not delusional. It can be useful to ramp up shutter speed. Eg. fast moving subject/background with a slow lens.
100k ISO in low-light can be borderline...

noshea,
Odd. I never owned a K5 before, but have a K200D from 2008, and K-30 from 2012 . I find the ergonomics of the K-1 II very intuitive, and much better given the number of dials and possible...

Curious why you own both .
Seems on paper, the main advantage of the D750 is better video (60p, 24 Mbps; but still no 4K!) and battery life (1230 shots).

ISO 12,800 max on the D750 would be very...

As far as the other competing cameras, the original review named the D850 and A7R III, which are in much different price categories ($1000+ more) vs the K-1 II and which I never considered due to...

followup : K-1 II vs A7 III :

3) max ISO. I am pretty sure I will never get a single good picture at ISO 819,200 . But I have some at ISO 102,400 that may be possible to salvage, in dynamic...

Rishi,
Completely agree with you that people cross-shop.
I considered Sony as the technology is attractive.

However, even for an A7 III at the same price as a K-1 II, price of Sony lenses was much...

Butoa,
It will be interesting to see how pronounced that effect translates in practice with actual astrophotography shots. And the amount of NR depends on ISO.

I think the moment you have to invoke Hitler or argue about him, you lose the argument. Godwin's law. This really has nothing to do with cameras whatsoever.

dptroll also went on about comparing...

Many programs still won't work with K-1 II DNGs without a camera profile for it. For example, DXO Pro Optics, Corel Aftershot Pro 3. I was able to build a camera profile for Aftershot myself. Not ...

Bobthearch, I think you mean FAA, not FFA. There are other countries on the planet which have much stricter policies on LiOn batteries. China is one.

My solution :

Use a Pentax K-30 with AA adapter. Just 4 rechargeable Eneloop AAs, no Li-on batteries.

Or Pentax K-1 II with battery grip, and 6 AA batteries. Leave the battery slot in the camera...

I shot the test images for full frame for the K-1 II that were provided to bclaff, so I can answer this one. Yes, that setting was turned off.

Are you talking about the disappearing red line in the K-1 II ? I thought that was the area where the NR showed a most observable loss of sharpness. Of course, I don't read Japanese, I used google ...