Just for fun: What's your favorite thing about your camera?
Quote from Alen K on September 20, 2022, 12:01 amHands down my favorite thing about my K-3II is Astrotracer. It's primarily why I chose it. (That and the warm, fuzzy feeling I have always had for the Pentax brand.
) Brilliant and largely unappreciated even by most astrophotographers who either don't know about it (11 years after it was introduced) or think it's a gimmick that doesn't work very well. These same people drool over cameras released by Canon every ten years or so (and once by Nikon) and then discontinued only a couple of years later, that merely replace the stock internal IR/UV blocking filter with one that passes more deep red light from nebulae. That can be done to almost any camera including Pentax DSLRs and is routinely done by astrophotographers for much less cost than the premium Canon and Nikon were charging.
I have the K-3 I and with how rarely I use the on-board flash (and even more rare is when the results doing so are good) I think the K-3 ii may have been the perfect camera for me. Built-in astrotracer is just so cool!
Quote from Alen K on September 20, 2022, 12:01 amHands down my favorite thing about my K-3II is Astrotracer. It's primarily why I chose it. (That and the warm, fuzzy feeling I have always had for the Pentax brand.
I agree that the built-in astrotracer feature is underrated. I don't even use it that much, but every time I am camping I use it on my K-1. And it just works. Rarely have to fiddle with it, and the results just shock you for coming straight out of a camera. A really genius solution 11 years ago that still works. The new K-3 III GPS-less astrotracer also works really well, but only in certain situations. The GPS one covers pretty much all situations.
It has to be ergonomics.
In the whole K5,K3,K3-II pack. Yes, of course, after some hours of abuse I feel pain in my hands, but not severe.
I find these series of cameras are compact and very very nice in hand. The K3-III goes even higher on that scale and the buttons are placed exactly where they should be or I was expecting them to be.
I don't know, it's just everything in these cameras is where I thought it should be.
my favourite thing about the gx80 is the small size of the camera and the lenses. its so practical and you can take it anywhere!
Super fun topic! Even though my own only camera is now the Fujifilm X100T, which is just exactly what I need for life, the Fuji X-T1 is the best-feeling camera I've tried in hand, and my favorite things about it are the grip and the viewfinder. That thing just wants to picked up, has such a nice rubbery little grip, and stays in your hand. Then you get to put your eye up to the giant EVF and just soak in the light. So nice!
If only there were more small lens options for it. Hence, the X100T, which is just perfect for walking around, with its 23mm (35mm in 35mm equiv terms) f/2 lens, and fits in my jacket pocket. (Still, I have an X-T1 at work, that I get to use often, with a couple lenses we have at my workplace.)
Quote from Estelon_Agarwaen on September 27, 2022, 10:24 ammy favourite thing about the gx80 is the small size of the camera and the lenses. its so practical and you can take it anywhere!
That really does look like a fantastic camera setup. I love M43 more and more the more I get into the system.
Quote from James Warner on October 1, 2022, 7:53 pmQuote from Estelon_Agarwaen on September 27, 2022, 10:24 ammy favourite thing about the gx80 is the small size of the camera and the lenses. its so practical and you can take it anywhere!
That really does look like a fantastic camera setup. I love M43 more and more the more I get into the system.
you shood keep getting more into it. one modern ish body and a few lenses is all you need. the 17mm 1.8 is pretty much perfect. its my "just shoot with it" system, where as im GASing over pentax a lot. but then i also want a full frame mirrorless for adapting. argh too much gas.
get sth like a gx80/85 or g80/81/85 (or an em1 classic or mk2) and just shoot. (didnt you have an em5? just use that one then). the 17 is great, but i want to get the 12 f2 some day. i want to maybe then just use that lens only for a while to try it out.
Quote from denniscrommett on September 30, 2022, 3:23 pmSuper fun topic! Even though my own only camera is now the Fujifilm X100T, which is just exactly what I need for life, the Fuji X-T1 is the best-feeling camera I've tried in hand, and my favorite things about it are the grip and the viewfinder. That thing just wants to picked up, has such a nice rubbery little grip, and stays in your hand. Then you get to put your eye up to the giant EVF and just soak in the light. So nice!
If only there were more small lens options for it. Hence, the X100T, which is just perfect for walking around, with its 23mm (35mm in 35mm equiv terms) f/2 lens, and fits in my jacket pocket. (Still, I have an X-T1 at work, that I get to use often, with a couple lenses we have at my workplace.)
I agree with pretty much everything here about the X-T1, to add I really enjoy having dedicated ISO and shutter speed dials. I find it a lot more intuitive to switch between different automatic modes with the dials (or just shoot fully manual) when I need to do different things than with a PASM dial.
I recently picked up an XF 27mm R WR as a walk around lens and it's definitely a pocketable setup. I think it's still overall a bit bigger than the X100 but I highly recommend it. The water resistance to match the body and aperture ring is 100% worth the price over the original 27mm.
