On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bruce Walker wrote: > >> I dunno. I came to the K-3 from the K20D. Then I came to the 645Z from >> the K-3. Yet I still shoot the K20D from time to time and when I do I >> appreciate both its ergonomics and image quality[*]. Nobody with a >> K20D should feel pressure to upgrade if it's meeting their needs. > > > If your camera is meeting your needs, no matter what it is, you should feel > no pressure to upgrade. However, anybody with a Pentax body older than a > K-5, with the ability to upgrade, should at least consider borrowing one for > a short while to see if the improved performance might help them in > unexpected ways. > > I think that the button layout on the K-1 is the best yet. I rarely find > myself hitting the wrong button by mistake. I've got a couple of pages of > gripes about the design of the software UI, but the button layout is very > nice. > >> >> -- >> * I'm a big fan of the rendering from that CMOS sensor. > > > I went to the K20 from the K100, and there wasn't a lot about the 20 sensor > that I liked better than the K100 sensor. I did quite like the ergonomics > and feel of it. For studio work it was a very nice body. Although, once I > got the K-x, which had the worst feel in my hands of any of my Pentax DSLRs, > I pretty much stopped using the K20 for anything but studio work because the > K-x sensor was so much better in anything but the best light.
Heh, funny how it goes. My K20D/K100D experience is almost the exact opposite to yours. The K100D sensor is so bad at low light I almost swooned when I used the K20D in the same venues. I put the K100D away and never shot with it again. The K20D was just so refined and a huge upgrade in every single way from the K100D Super. I found there was no comparison at all between the K20D's sensor and the K100D. I gave my K100D to an impoverished model whose mother had some Pentax lenses, so it's getting some use at least. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
