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You should add the option of "Pre-ordered". I'm sitting on a boat load of their better glass that I have collected over the past several decades. I would buy it even if it had a hamster inside running on a tread mill to power it... From what I see the camera will work for me.
Today I preordered one after having played with it on the RICOH booth of the Professional Imaging fair. On the fair there was a 150 Euro discount on the original price, so that made me tick and not wait till later, apart form that I want to take it with me this summer, and than it is handy that you are used to it already.
I will buy it the day it is released, but I will not advance order it. I'm buying from a certain retailer that doesn't include overnight shipping for advance-orders. I will get it faster from them than the advance-orderers!
I will buy the body. However the entire system should be taken into account. I will stay (!) with Pentax but as a professional brand, I miss a bright (low aperture) telephoto lens, see Nikon and Canon. And I don't see such lenses on the new roadmap. May be it is not profitable enough to make it?
I sincerely hope that Pentax will re-release some (many) of their old lenses, such as 135/2.8, 20/2.8, or 85/1.4, with the only change in improved "digital" coating, maybe further increased precision, and WR, but retain the small form factors! E.g., the 85/1.4 is smaller than any of the competitors' lenses with same aperture and focal length. Same is true for many of Pentax' lenses, and since the SR is in the body, that should translate to compact lenses. Chris
PS I HATE those big lenses such as the 15-30 (who needs that anyway? - I'd just take the 20mm and "zoom with my feet", or make a panorama).
I'm very happy that there will be the new K-1. But as my finances aren't great, I'll wait and try it first. I'm very happy with my K-5 except for: * AF-Performance (low light and hit-rate) (possibly better on K-1) * Even if the viewfinder is rather big for an APS-C DSLR, the matte acreen and the size (compared to full frame) make manual focusing with my old primes hard so I miss too many shots which often is disappointing. (certainly better on K-1) * low light performance on K-5 is great, but of course, shooting indoors, an improvement is still welcome (we're spoiled these days!) so I could use higher shutter speeds. I'm also looking into the D750, but I've got lots of sympathy for Pentax. One thing I'd like to add: Sometimes, those third party produced Pentax branded lenses are a drawback for Pentax customers: Even if the Pentax K-1 body is nicely priced - if you don't get a big rebate for the 24-70/2.8 as a kit lens, Canon and Nikon users will get the same (Tamron) lens for much less money. I guess I'll just have to find a better paid job so I'll be able to more easily afford full frame cameras and not think that much about it before :-)
Well... if it'll feel fine upon testing (mainly AF, because for the rest I'm already sure Pentax got it right again) AND there'll be a kit option for the 2.8/24-70 some day soon (or a big price drop from the current 1300€, (vs 800€ for the Tamron!) I might buy it rather sooner than later, even if my finances are not really allowing it :-)
Honestly I still love my K-7, even though it's missing the flash popup button, but who uses that? I forget how I voted yesterday, but to be honest, unless something goes horribly wrong with my current camera I'm not going to "upgrade" to anything anytime soon. Eventually I could see myself buying the K-1 or one of it's successors as it gets marked down for one of the last times around 6 months before the next model is announced. That's what happened when I bought my K-7, but then I tend to buy products that way.
I'm afraid that's it for me with Pentax. I waited and waited for this camera but I am not paying that sort of money for a camera that doesn't do 4k when the latest competitor cameras do. It may not be important to some but I am regulary getting requests to shoot photo and video for weddings. 4k is obviously better than 1080p but it gives me the option to extract 8mp stills from the times when I was video'ing - this is the way photography is going for me in any case. To put the nail in the coffin my K30 (which has had relatively low usage) let me down shooting a wedding recently with a problem which had never occured before even with my old k100d. The anti shake mechanism would randomly force the sensor over into a corner, I would guess to the extreme of it's travel but you don't see that through the optical viewfinder. It's only when you review that you notice it and I can't review every photo after I've taken it on a wedding shoot. (it does this even with the confirmation lights showing ok) I need to be able to trust it. I've not found any comments about this on the internet but I just can't trust anti shake sensors any more, unless maybe on a mirrorless where WYSIWYG. It was only the fact that i'd used 2 cameras that save me.
So out of necessity I have jumped brand - It's wiped away my confidence in Pentax. I know all brands have issues and Pentax have some great new technology but they are behind the game with the type of gear I need.
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Pentaxfools · 471 weeks ago
I'm sitting on a boat load of their better glass that I have collected over the past several decades.
I would buy it even if it had a hamster inside running on a tread mill to power it...
From what I see the camera will work for me.
6x7 · 471 weeks ago
On the fair there was a 150 Euro discount on the original price, so that made me tick and not wait till later, apart form that I want to take it with me this summer, and than it is handy that you are used to it already.
pentax fullframer · 471 weeks ago
ToetSFX · 471 weeks ago
Chris · 471 weeks ago
Chris
PS I HATE those big lenses such as the 15-30 (who needs that anyway? - I'd just take the 20mm and "zoom with my feet", or make a panorama).
dominique · 471 weeks ago
But as my finances aren't great, I'll wait and try it first.
I'm very happy with my K-5 except for:
* AF-Performance (low light and hit-rate) (possibly better on K-1)
* Even if the viewfinder is rather big for an APS-C DSLR, the matte acreen and the size (compared to full frame) make manual focusing with my old primes hard so I miss too many shots which often is disappointing. (certainly better on K-1)
* low light performance on K-5 is great, but of course, shooting indoors, an improvement is still welcome (we're spoiled these days!) so I could use higher shutter speeds.
I'm also looking into the D750, but I've got lots of sympathy for Pentax.
One thing I'd like to add: Sometimes, those third party produced Pentax branded lenses are a drawback for Pentax customers: Even if the Pentax K-1 body is nicely priced - if you don't get a big rebate for the 24-70/2.8 as a kit lens, Canon and Nikon users will get the same (Tamron) lens for much less money. I guess I'll just have to find a better paid job so I'll be able to more easily afford full frame cameras and not think that much about it before :-)
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Surferdude · 470 weeks ago
So out of necessity I have jumped brand - It's wiped away my confidence in Pentax. I know all brands have issues and Pentax have some great new technology but they are behind the game with the type of gear I need.