I have been a Pentax user for many years, 16 plus years ago i purchased my first DSLR, a Pentax K100D Super. Since then I have added a host of other Pentax cameras, my favorites are the Kp, k3 series, the K3 MKIII being my favorite one and the mack daddy, K1 MKII. It is a beast of a camera and as i got involved in event photography became my go to camera along with the k3 series. I photographed events with earlier Pentax cameras but with the k1 and a K3 as my second body i had more confidence in my camera and started doing more events. The k1 is an unusual camera and as a landscape camera and for events was a pleasure to use.

Congrats, nice camera. I was testing it against other DSLRs and mirrorless after my K-3 Mk III broke and I was unable to get it repaired. I decided to get another K-3 cause I had APSC lenses, but K-1 was really cool camera.

Which one is better as a full frame, k1 or 5d mark iii? Thanx

They are transforming cameras into cellphones by adding more and more unecessary modes/filters/nonsense. Soon you will be able to make a call with your camera using the lens as an antena.

me too.

Just picked one up from my Japan trip (z-1p) so I gotta figure out the menu and functions now!

No worries, Luigi, I liked that bit of politics and I agree on #1 Worst😉The "Tax Freedom Day 2024" was June 28th in Poland - do you know, what that means? On the other hand, my best spent money (not invested, I'm not proffessional) would be couple of decent prime lenses and recently ordering more prints. Step by step I should make some albums too (again, after some years). Nothing serious, family pictures and some hobbyist cityscapes - but they mean so much more when put on photographic paper 🙂

Thank you for the video!

Hello, in my super program suddenly the wind lever doesn't work, it seems loose and don't activate the shutter, can you help me to understand what happened? Tks a lot

Fix your audio. Your right channel does not work

Excellent video 😮!

Thank You! Education over attention wins in my book. Please keep up the good work.

Thank you for your comments on photography and the movie.

Back into DSLR myself I started with mirrorless and enjoy the OVF of the SLR.

Not. Its a good camera

As someone who shoots in film on my 35mm Mamiya SLRs and digital on sigma fp I can say that nothing will ever beat film. No matter how much I try to mimic film look on my digital photos, it’s just not the same and never will be.

Wasn’t this Ricoh based on a Cosina body? Great work by the way! Loved the video and subbed

With the price of film, developing and printing.... the cost is not the camera. I don't want the cheapest SLR

So we can’t take any color photos in this camera? Thank you.

You've made me going on auction portals... Horrible! 🤣🤣🤣 But no worries, I resisted the temptation 😉 However, when my ME-Super stops working, I might obtain another camera exactly this way...

Is there no sound in the speakers after connecting headphones?

That was a great lecture, Professor Barbano, thanks a lot!😉 I'm approaching my 50's and I've just learned developing B&W films recently. I couldn't agree more with you: learn the basic stuff first. Now, after something like 20 rolls of FOMAPAN 200 I feel calm and confident with the standard process (Fomadon R09 / Fomafix). I think, 30 rolls more this way and then I might try something else, better film maybe, ILFORD perhaps...

Grazie Luigi per il video molto, interessante, sono molto interessato ad acquistare questo dispositivo perché effettivamente costa meno di un Q2 monocromatico, ha un prezzo eccessivo... ma c'è qualcosa che non capisco bene. Ho sentito che se usi una fotocamera con un sensore a colori a risoluzione più elevata (40mp o 60mp) scatti la foto a colori e la converti in bianco e nero e hai la stessa qualità dell'immagine. In questo caso nessuno comprerebbe un dispositivo con sensore in bianco e nero... Giusto ? Non capisco. Ho sempre sentito dire che i sensori in bianco e nero danno foto molto più nitide.

Ciao Luigi, complimenti per il tuo pensiero, non ho mai avuto Pentax nella mia passione per la fotografia, mi sto informando per una K3 monochrome, essendo una APSc credo di aver capito che la baionetta è la stessa del FF? e sono interessato a due ottiche questo 31 ed il 21 f2,4, per il piacere di fotografare la vita quotidiana, c'è che non mi dicono un granché le ottiche APSc, cosa ne pensi? Grazie

Good topic. This is a good topic for people who wish to try film photography for the first time who are currently using digital cameras. I've been shooting since 1972 and my first SLR was the Pentax Spotmatic F. It is a wonderful camera. It is simple to use. The lenses for it are fantastic, can't go wrong. I would think the K-Mount is much better than the screw mount. Keep that in mind. I started out with the 50, 35 and 135. And really, that was all I needed. I shot mostly Tri-X, and did the developing of the film and eventually making prints. This is a good background for all those who think they know everything about photography. Once they get into film, they will realize they don't know much. This will give this a good grasp of photography and how it all started.

Fantastic explanation about exposure, I can finally say that I understand what the ISO numbers mean. On the digital world, do the light meters also measure this medium grey colour or are they measuring something like a medium brown? Thanks!

Nice tutorial. Digital detox part especially. But yeah, be patient and accept that this is an analog process so there will be no AI correcting stuff for you, everyhing will come out as you set it.

Brilliant video, thank you. You’ve convinced me to get one before they’re gone. One little thing…German music? It’s wonderful, but Vivaldi/Palestrina/Verdi and many others are all rolling in their graves! 😂

2x too expensive but still nice! Pentax 17 is NOT GREAT.

Any film, has a certain speed with a developer. The best practice is to try and find the true speed of the film with the developer you use most and then learn to meter properly. Pulling or over exposing in combination with reduced development can help with giving shadows detail, but it also compresses the mid tones. So its give and take. I prefer to expose at the proper speed but try and place the exposure correctly.

Already people are angry from UK and other European countries. Rollei only came out with the postponed date for the rest of Europe of January 2025 today. I am not affected but that is really dissapointing. At least this should have been communicated earlier. If they only ship to those 3 countries because of lack of stock I wonder why everyone is allowed to buy 2 units. Just for the issue you stated here. Why allow people to buy 2 units each? If this camera is made for interested hobbyists who are film enthuasists most of them will only need one unit. Unless people start reselling... In the end people from UK can buy the camera on Ebay before pre-orders are shipped in January...

Well, after DSLRs first came out, at first I couldn't understand why they were a thing. You can see the image the camera will take with the aid of the sensor on a screen, so why go to the trouble of having a moving mirror and a pentaprism? A ground glass, though, has higher resolution than a video screen, and there are also focusing aids on the screen - a split prism and microprisms. That is what the DSLR brings.

❤ " . . . freedom to choose . . . ." Photograp phic examples of the differences you discussed would be helpful. Thank you for your thoughtful presentation.

Hi, I have both reflex and mirrorless cameras. I buy them used and enjoy using both systems. I have also an xpro1 and shoot with the ovf, it is a very nice camera. I like the Xt1 too. I bought an old olympus E-420 dslr with 3 lenses recently for 45 euros (like new) and I must say that I am impressed by the beautiful colors straight out from the camera. I shoot raw and just need small adjustments like a little bit of contrast. I found that usually digital cameras have difficulty to render the red color and you get orange instead, but Olympus seems to control colors nicely. Then I am OK with 10 to 16 Mpix cameras because I print at max A3 format. I really don't understand that race for high Mpix especially when most of people don't print. Then I think that the big advantage of mirrorless cameras is that you can adapt almost all vintage lenses.

Aaaa Lui... I have wasted half an hour to discover your miraculous way of getting good negatives by exposing at box speed. Your film is not only confusing, but above all useless and counterproductive. You have NOT used ONCE the concept of measuring incident lighting, talking instead about measuring the scene and claiming the opposite of what it implies. Because, if you EXPOSE FOR THE SHADOWS then 99% of the time you will simply expose at half the box speed. I have no further time to waste on PIRLATE like these, so I invite you to watch this video, and then stop making films that are meant only for generating clicks from ignorant beginners and deteriorating their results. E togliti dalle palle. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJ3RpWive6aljdE

I hate technical books in english, but i liked your albums :) Hope that is good way to support the channel too. I personally would love more videos like this. I photograph for as long as I remember, but there is always something new to learn.

Mirrorless ! I do 99% of my photography with manual focusing, so a mirrorless camera with a very good EVF is much better than a DSLR ! Also mirrorless camera are more compact and light weight than DSLR.

Wow C64. Those were times, my first serious program was written for C64 and was helping me to solve math problems from school. I was lazy enough already to spend some time writing programs to not have to work later :D But I agree, people are not interested in how they get the result, only in getting result. I suppose rising complexity of machines is partly at fault, but current education model sucks too.

When I'm shooting with film, SLR is the way to go. Macro, zoom lens, tele lens... anything that is not suitable with rangefinder (mirrorless of film era). But the good thing is such limitations are not exist anymore on digital mirrorless system... so why bother keeping a mirror box, which make s the camera bigger?

Having got a K1 from a K5. Its a magical camera. The old 70's 80's lenses I have which never looked good on a aspc sensor. Look wonderful on this. Yes they arnt as sharp as a modern one but if thats importnt to you the. Why do you have an old £10 lense? And they make intrsting images. They aren't bad pictures like a crappy modern lense. Just not lab perfect. The only thing I will give a K5 over is is the bittons. Don’t get me wrong. The K1 has a very good layout. But the K5 has a better one for many critical things I feel. Like a selector between single or multiple focus points. No menue needed. The same for metering weights. But apart form that niggle its better in every way. The full frame is what you need for the old lenses. They were made for 35mm film. And it shows. Im loving the ISO performance. Its like another world. I would puck the K1 this over the K3iii any day. The full frame sensor alone simpmt makes it so much of a nicer camera. Adll the gorgeous viewfinder and all the other stuff. Its a winner. Those who haven't tried it dont get why a camera that people think is out of date is so magical to use.

Fabulous review!

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dslr will never truly die so as long as companies like pentax carry the torch - i currently use a mirrorless sony a6600 due to its compact size and low weight combined with a prime but i know plenty of people who use canon and nikon dslrs still for music gigs around town :) i personally would like a dslr at some point just for the experience of the ovf and mirror slap, even if technically these days it's "inferior" to the technology found in mirrorless cameras

Molto bello il video. Mi è piaciuto molto il commento sul fatto che si scatta troppo senza un ragionamento a priori. Quando lo scatto era a pagamento si scattava di meno e si pensava di piu'. Ma io che sono a digiuno di digitale, una fotocamera monochrome mi agevola oppure no nel b/n,? In sostanza quale è il valore aggiunto rispetto ad una tradizionale?

If I just want to take snaps without being too much involved, I use my mirrorless cameras ( not many left). If I want to really enjoy the process of shooting, I take my SLRs and DSLRs. I have sold all my Fujifilm equipment to switch back to OVF. I only have Sony A7S and a couple MFT camers for portability.

I just bought the Z-1. With power zoom lens this thing is so loud, but other then this it looks like pretty nice camera. Plastic, but it feels solid, there is no weird "rubber" surfaces, LED is solid, viewfinder is great. I feel as if this is more solid then some of new digital cameras, as everything works and it is more or less 30 years old camera. Made from plastic. It is really fantastic tool. No wonder that it was pro camera in Pentax lineup. Bit heavy, and ergonomics compared to modern DSLRs is kinda weird and bulky but I suppose it is matter of getting used to it. I doubt it will replace K2 full time, but it will be nice side camera just to have and use something different. BTW - I just realized that I have more film cameras and film lenses then I have digital ones.

Luigi, (hello again), go read the article PetaPixel has posted on Pentax / Ricoh. It is good, it is positive and I think you will appreciate it. If the link below does not work (copy/paste), simply go to the PetaPixel website and search for : " Ricoh Imaging Enjoys Increased Sales and Profits Thanks to Unusual Strategy " petapixel.com/2024/08/06/ricoh-imaging-enjoys-increased-sales-and-profits-thanks-to-unusual-strategy/

Ciao Luigi, buongiorno. Apprezzo molto il tuo approccio pragmatico al discorso. Chi fa le foto è il fotografo non lo strumento, che poi lo strumento abbia i suoi pro e contro è un dato di fatto, ma come giustamente dici tu, ogni uno di noi è diverso, ogni uno ha un approccio mentale differente, ma quello che conta è il risultato. Ho cominciato tardi a fotografare, a quasi 50 anni e con sistemi mirrorless, nello specifico una Olympus e-m10 IV ed una Nikon Zfc. Ricordo ancora papà che a metà anni 70 aveva Pentax e Nikon e la sua camera oscura in casa, dove all'ombra della luce rossa sviluppava e stampava le sue foto. Di recente, ad un mercatino, ho trovata una Pentax K1000. Sono affascinato dalle macchine fotografiche di un tempo. Le mie mirrorless infatti hanno un design "vecchio stampo", adoro le ghiere sul corpo macchina, adoro la ghiera a scatti dei diaframmi sulla lente. Se c'è una cosa che ho capito prima da musicista e informatico nella vita, poi appassionato di fotografia è il confronto sano ed intelligente, dove contano più i perché dei come e che non siamo tutti uguali. Per quello che mi piace fotografare, basta una qualsiasi fotocamera tra i 1000 e 2000€, non faccio avifauna, ma qualche volatile l'ho fotografato, non faccio fotografia sportiva o estremamente dinamica, ma qualcosa che si muove l'ho fotografato. Il messaggio finale è quello di avere il controllo dei propri mezzi, sia fisici che mentali. Siamo noi che controlliamo ed usiamo la tecnologia, anche se il marketing e le tendenze vorrebbero il contrario..... grazie.