Fuji AF SUCKS?? | Pentax 17 is AWESOME??
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Interesting comments, Ed, but I also like the way you made the most of an overcast day with that panorama of the wheat field. Keep up the good work. Your channel provides more actual photography than many others that seem to exist just to push equipment. Cheers, Rob
As a film shooter the most impressive aspect of the Pentax 17 in respect to image quality is the lens!
When Pentax makes a good lens it's usually world class. Very underrated lenses in my opinion.
Always glad to get the notification you've posted. Funny you mention certain channels and their love of certain brands. Sony, for me, is not a serious camera for my purposes. They laugh at Pentax, yet any serious photographer that has used a Pentax has never spoken a bad word. I'm a big guy, I like chunky gear ( personally) K1 is still my favorite, D850 another amazing camera. I've got the X100V, the Q2 Monochrom and my bases are covered. I love gear too but time to enjoy making photos. Thanks for your perspective, Ed
Unfortunately for my wallet, the K3 Mark III monochrome is starting to call my name again... Maybe around Christmas I'll have scrapped the mad money together to be able to blow it all on that. Everyone else gets coal.
I never got used to the continuous autofocus, for photos (not video), I inevitably set it up for single point end up doing the old fashioned half press focus and re compose.
Fuji's got a cool thing going with their AF on button in manual focus. Set the camera to manual focus, press the AF on button, the AF focuses and then it's locked because your in manual focus. Interestingly, the Pentax K1 does the same thing. (Sony's that I have used don't do that.)
On the Pentax17 image quality: I don't think it is quite so much that people are raving about the quality, or more that they are surprised at the quality, given that it is half frame. As stated elsewhere, they've clearly done a good job with the lens. I use half frame and am perfectly happy with the image quality. Sure it's nowhere near medium format, or large format, or just about any digital sensor, but it is good enough for a lot of uses.
(re: what isn't there in digital, I use art to get as far away from a computer as I can, have quite enough of all that at work thanks! Plus there's just such a variety of cameras, with genuine differences in the shooting process and experience, a 4x5 field camera is a world of difference from a TLR, or medium format SLR, vs old rangefinders, there just so much to explore, and it is relatively cheap)
I am pretty immersed in digital imagery, my own and others on the computer. And then every once in a while I pull down Ansel Adams 400 Photographs and realize what a joke and waste of time digital photography is. Digital can be fun though. But nobodies really is accomplishing anything.
@@EdwardMartinsPhotography I think that's very true of landscape, and to extent portraiture. It is easier to be able to take thousands of images, crop to the tiniest amount (though 4x5 can do that), and there's all the digital manipulation. But you still need the eyes, and the artistic sense. I don't think tech improves the art there.
I guess nature photography is one area where tech absolutely does excel. Hard to argue against it for that.
But me wandering about doing cute dog portraits and photographing my local tyre shop? Honestly, tech isn't going to make what I do any better :)
The difference in Pentax brand support between UK and US is staggering to say the least. Like, what does Pentax US even do to keep the brand relevant?
Pentax USA sucks at marketing !
Australia is shocking too. It’s literally zero from anyone except the distributor
I immediately recognized that tree, that grain elevator, and of course the Blue Mountains in the background. I've driven that Helix/Holdman highway thousands of times in my life. Maybe I'll run into you some time on one of those backroads.
COOL! When you live in Lagrande, Walla Walla is the closest restaurants you can find that don't serve road kill Possum... :)
@@EdwardMartinsPhotography Nah, check out the Great Pacific or Oregon Grain Growers (aka The Distillery) some time in Pendleton. I actually live in Hermiston, and the eats in Pendleton are far better.
@@RickScheibner At least Hermiston has a Burger King... 🙂 Pendleton has some restaurants that are pretty good. But Walla Walla has a French Bakery, and an Indian Restaurant which are personal favorites. Lagrande has a trough which you have to fight the pigs for a bite at. 🙂🙂 It's actually amazing how bad the food is in Lagrande. When Taco Bell and Panda Express are the stand outs, you are in trouble.
I used to use UniWB on my K5. It allowed for a simulated accurate preview of the image that tells you exactly when highlights clip in the green channel. The unfortunate thing was that all your jpegs would come out very green. It was a nice hack though.
Oh yeah the rich guys on RUclips. THE Worst are Mr. & Mrs. Saccharin from Conn. You know who I mean. They will shill for the highest bidder (KEH, Canon, Sony) along with pandering Mr. gray hairs book. On the other side of the rich guy channels is Marcuspix. This guy has tons of cash. Lives in a mansion in Calf. He buys everything on the shelf, tries it out and tells you if it's good or if it sucks and then he gives the stuff he can't use away. So let the viewer beware of obvious product shills.
The list is endless. I just skip over the Saccharin channel completely, can't stand them.
@@EdwardMartinsPhotography can’t stand them either.
For me the Pentax Custom Image of choice is the Reversal Film one for sunny days and Vibrant for overcast. It took me a while but I was able to dial in the settings on my Nikons to get them close to the slide film look. I tried some of the custom settings from the Nikon web page i.e. Velvia and Kodachrome, and the Pentax images look way better and closer to slide images. Just another example of Pentax, right out of the gate< giving photographers what they want without jumping through a bunch of hoops.
It's all about priorities. Pentax has always been image quality first, marketing second. Not the best strategy for staying in business, mostly because the IQ bell curve is what it is. (i.e. most people are really stupid.)
@@EdwardMartinsPhotography I agree 100%. most people are stupid.
I'm old and when i was young Sony was mainly in the audio business and made reel to reel tape players and then VCRs, tape players and then CD players and later DVD players etcand apart from DV cameras they weren't prominent in photography until DSLRs took off, film SLR basically died and Sony bought Minolta. Their camera business was built from there. But back before 2010 or so they really had no prominence in photography. Sony has come along way in a short time but I personally still think of them as they were before. When I think Sony, I think Walkman or VCR 😅
They make great speakers and portable radios...
@@EdwardMartinsPhotographysony is a tech company.
Great photo you got, really cool shot. Not much into panoramas but I like it. I wonder how it would look like few weeks/month sooner with crops being green.
For Pentax 17 I think it is for kids who want to get out of digital world and not just see another screen. They are opposites of people who got from film into digital and now counting megapixels at 200% magnification ;). And it works really well for what is supposed to be. you grab one, go into party and shot to your heart content, go develop, scan, off you go to instagram with this cool film look that nobady who is shooting smartphones have. Image quality is great for this (I got one, never had new film camera so could not stop myself).
And Fuji AF... people will forget as fast as they learned about it. New AF reviews will come, Google algorithms will push old one below first 10-20 search results and everyone will forget. Still I wonder what is with AF-thingy in reviews. Its not like all, even most, I suppose even minoryty does not shot action that is fast enough for that to matter on mirroless cameras with on sensor focus. But I suppose numbers are easier comparable then ergonomics or feel when using camera :(
I think the composition of the image could be better. I will try again. :)
I am starting to think that just as film is making a resurgence, DSLR's will as well. I hope Pentax hangs in there long enough to see it happen. People will start realizing that mirrorless is one digital step too far... I can dream.
AI autofocus? Really? That's about as bad as a digital toothbrush.
I do a lot of bird photography and use an OM1. I've tried using the X-T5 for birds and the continuous AF is okay but not near as good as the OM1. The XT5 C-AF is good enough for most situations even the eye tracking, but tracking birds is a whole different game. The OM1 and OM1 Mark 2 kicks Fuji's butt when it comes to birding and fast tracking. Fuji kicks the OM1's butt elsewhere!
Each tool for its purpose.
Your last couple of video's have inspired me to pull out my K1 and shoot the dust off of it ;)
Happy trails....
I am always pleased with the K1's images. Can't say that about my mirrorless cameras...
@@EdwardMartinsPhotography The only mirrorless camera that I have used that's actually better than the K1 is the GFX system. The GFX is a little bit easier and slightly more fun to use in my opinion.
The Pentax 17 marketing has been absolutely shocking. I'm actually discovering a ton of new channels because of it 😂.
"Wait, who's this person? They got sent a Pentax 17 to try out too 😮" 😂.
Very odd to see from them. Didn't see this with the k3iii. You kind of had to know about it and seek out those reviews.
For realism, it’s hard to beat the ole K1. I hope that now they are done with the 17 they’re working on a K1 iii. I like your photos.
Thanks! Yes, K1 III would be nice!
Nice to see you too 🙂
Thank you! 😃
Some RUclipsrs are definitely independently wealthy. And I'm sure some of that wealth was earned but a lot was inherited. But that's capatalism, right? Always going to have some better off than others.
The only part that bothers me is when they shill for products that actually aren't that good. Kase filters has been handing out $500 filter sets to everyone with 50K subs or more, and quite frankly they are made in the same Chinese factory as the $50 filters, which are very very good these days. Just buy the $50 ones and save a ton of cash for the same thing.
Iceland, they all go to the same location Vik, they all have the same rock. 99% of Iceland photographs are made there. We never see Western Fjords. It's only trend and marketing.
The main problem I have is that they are claiming to be photographers, when in actuality they are travel vloggers with cameras.
@@EdwardMartinsPhotography exactly
I am completely bemused by the Pentax 17. Its high price puts it out of reach of the market they’re going for. So I guess saturation on RUclips is the best strategy. I expect the second hand market on these to be good value in six months.
Typically, I avoid watching gear videos when every RUclipsr is pushing the same thing on release day. Nikon Z8 was a bad week 😂
Agreed on all points. :)