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Oh man, you know, this video is probably not gonna get many views.
It should have been something like
“Why I switched to Sony from Canon?”, that would get views.
Sony, Canon, that's a double whammy.
Maybe I need like a more click baity thumbnail,
like some boobs, boobs on fire with some puppies,
puppies eating their own faeces. Or something like that.
Because what I'm saying is:
I've switched to Pentax.
Here it is, it's cool.
There's no reason why you can't like this,
because this is a superb camera. It is indeed.
[Lok: Oh yeah, I think you are really the one on the whole internet,
on the whole Youtube to review this Pentax KP because nobody else bother,
I mean, how many people actually own a Pentax,
well, not to mention how many people actually touch one]
But look at it. What is there not to like about this fantastic
[Lok: What, What fantastic? I think I just realized, under the sun, especially under the sun,
these paint kind of glistening a little bit, kind of like those black paint on the road]
Yeah, well, you know what that's for, [Lok: these glittering]
that's what it's for, is that so you can see in the dark, just a tiny bit of moonlight.
Boom. You can see your road
[Lok: But it’s coming out here and there and it's just...]
and that's why it's good, I'm telling you.
You're gonna regret it, you, at the end of this video. You're gonna, you're gonna be
trying to save up some money to try and get one of these. I'm telling you.
[Lok: Yeah, I'm getting my Sony]
This Pentax is old-school cool.
We should do something old-school cool, something very old-school, but I can't think what.
Oh look, oh it’s on timer. Damn.
So yeah, in terms of the ergonomics and ease-of-use, top-notch.
Total random shot of randomness in Hong Kong.
Can you feel the nostalgia coming off this photo?
And just you know, I know we're about a minute into the video already, but this is the Pentax KP by the way.
I forgot to introduce it.
It’s the Pentax KP. Why did I buy it?
I mean, you can get it - It's quite cheap these days, even you, it is pretty damn cheap.
And what do you get for it?
You get in-body stabilization, which is kind of unheard of in a DSLR.
Oympus did it, but you know, nobody buys Olympus DSLRs.
Continuity. Nobody buys Olympus. Full-stop.
Yes, what else has it got? It's got quite a big viewfinder for a crop sensor camera, biggest in its class possibly.
I have not gone to all the trouble of comparing all of the class.
Confirmed! Fatty finder from info, though blatantly ripped from DP reviews’ website.
Nice and crystal clear.
I mean, just look at the prism on this.
That is very classic Pentax.
That's one reason to love Pentax,
it's because they just have the same designer since way back, all conjecture of course, but look,
it's a nice nostalgic touch.
But there are lists of things to like about this.
One of them being the fact that it uses Pentax lenses.
Pentax lenses are superb.
There was a, there was a, there was a website, a really geeky website,
that once said “best autofocus lenses money can buy”.
Apparently.
They’re limited lenses and they're not limited.
They produce lots of them, it's just a name.
But they come up with really kind of specific focal lengths, like 43mm, 32mm,
it's like, does, does, does, do those few millimeters matter?
Yes, it does. Goddamnit, you've got to be precise.
With this, what I've got in here, look at that, I bet you almost missed that, right?
It's a 40 mm pancake. Look at that, that, that is thinner than some pancakes out there.
You know we've been to New York, we had some pancakes there,
and that is a, one, that was a heart attack on the plate, but also, they were thicker than this,
that has a lens hood on it.
Could be good thumbnail.
So YouTube, typical YouTube thumbnail, but it's good, it's even got a red ring on it.
Just in case you're worried about switching from Canon,
looks like an L lens, apart from the body, doesn't look like a Canon, probably got more features than a Canon body.
They do say that it's all about lenses, invest in lenses, not bodies.
And they’re very nice lenses, nice compact lenses.
In fact, I've got another one in my bag here, my little butt pouch.
Let me get it out of my butt pouch. Crack. Oosh.
Another red ring, another limited.
Interestingly all the lens caps seem to be of this screw type.
This one is a 15 mm [inaudible from a Chinese lady] Okay yeah. Very specific, okay ready (in Chinese: 1, 2, 3.)
Very, very specific requirements there, just, just like a whole list of requirements.
[Lok: Is this an autofocus? It just, it looks like a manual lens.]
No, it is, it is all auto.
[Lok: Oh because it’s the autofocus motor in the camera]
Yeah. See, you don't get one of these in the Canon DSLR.
Sorry, I just saw something.
It says “tako catcher”, there's nothing that looks like an octopus in there.
That is not an octopus. Give me my octopus!
I thought that’s a new coke.
That's just been in there for so long, that's faded.
I've been away for a long time, so I thought, you know, is that new coke?
No. I, I don't want to be getting that can. That's for sure. [Daddy, daddy.] Yeah.
There’s another thing, this is incredibly robust.
It's weather sealed. It is, it's got other sealed.
It's sealed to drops.
How can you seal for drops I don't know, but I just made it up.
So it should take a good tossing.
This is the place where we did camera tossing.
I bet you were thinking we participated in some public indecency right here.
Well, not here. We didn't anyway.
I can't remember if we showed it, but we dropped the 5d when we were tossing the camera.
That's the 5…… Was it the 5d3 that was just released at that time?
[Lok: Oh yeah] So how do we do it? Let's do a bit of camera tossing.
Of course this is my camera.
So doesn’t matter if I break it. I’ve paid for it.
Of course, that's a beautiful shot of nothing.
Of course I couldn’t have got that shot if I didn't toss it.
I’ve to try and toss it, toss it the right way, it's all about the tossing technique.
It's fine, I'm a professional tosser.
Okay, all right, that will do.
They say the more you fly, the more you risk your life.
But the more you risk your camera in this case. Ok.
Don’t think we’ve ever show this in a video that we've done before, Lok, this is a,
this is what they call an adult playground, that sounds dodgy,
sounds like a company that makes saucy films.
What is this? “Pull-down machine”
Let me put this between my legs.
I think these are usually for like, Chinese aunties,
because you know, this isn't exactly strenuous stuff. Alright.
Although it does look like nunchuck. Look at that,
“Shoulder stretch”, It’s more like dislocate your shoulder.
Alright, I've had enough. Let's go. That's my exercise done for the day.
Forget the gym.
Look at that yacht, somebody's got a tiny penis over there.
I bet, I bet the owner of that also has his own, like, captain's hat,
and he likes all his guests to call him captain.
And he’ll put all the girls on his lap, and say “Call me captain.”
It's interesting the color difference in colour of water in Hong Kong.
UK is kind of like a brown color.
Here it’s sort of like,
“you know they just chucked bleach straight into the water probably” kind of colour.
So yeah, anyway. The camera.
Nice little break, a little interlude from talking about camera stuff.
This has an ISO, max ISO of eight hundred and something thousand, I don't know.
It's so high, I can't remember the number, don't care, don’t go up that high but it’s higher,
And naturally I'd take a shot that fully utilises the rather generous max ISO of 819200.
So good that I can just shoot as a tourist.
I mean, I’ve kind of dressed up like a Moroccan, or something like that today.
Because obviously, I look a bit Moroccan?
I remember this. This is so good.
They look cute, dolphins, fierce, will take your face off if they can.
Oh, you can get an Instagram photo like
[Lok: Oh why don’t you take a selfie? Oh you don’t have a tilt screen]
No, you can’t take a selfie with this, but Pentax is for serious photographers, yeah?
It's not for your hipster generation, your Instagrammerses.
Just realized that you're taking video so it's gonna look absolutely stupid.
Reliable autofocus.
There we go, it's good for selfies though.
Here we are, it’s wide enough, 15 mm.
This is APS-C crop, none of your Canon APS-C crop which is 1.6 times.
This is full on, full 1.5 times frame crop.
This is new, there’s a lot of plants here ,just stand there, Lok. This is a nice little backdrop for you.
I don't know why I keep using, I keep looking to use the LCD screen.
I mean you can use live view, it's got a perfectly usable live view, but this is a DSLR.
The benefit of it is that you can use them, the mirror, looking straight through the lens.
Some of you don't get these days cos people are going mirrorless, that's exactly what you're gonna get.
[Lok: What's your most used camera? Is that a GH5?]
Yeah, I don't use cameras with mirrors because you know they're old, old fashioned but you know,
it's good to use one once in a while, isn't it?
And you can use it as a mirrorless.
Oh, that was slow.
The live AF that is, not the old lady.
That's kind of obvious.
Actually it's not so much slow as it is, it’s a bit reluctant to focus on what I want at times,
especially with a bit backlighting, even if the subject is kind of obvious.
There's only one thing though.
I mean it takes quite nice pictures but however, if you're into video, not so good. 1080p.
If you want to shoot 4k video, get a video camera.
Yeah, this is what the 1080p footage looks like,
and with Shake Reduction, which looks not too natural, a little bit robotic.
“Pet-friendly” Some idiots are gonna put their dog in there, and think “Oh, that's pet friendly.
Great, that's how I, that's how I stop my dog from smelling.” Boom. Tumble dry.
No, come out corpse. Rover’s a corpse.
[Lok: Oh yeah, high heat, kill the fleas.]
Just wanna get this, a completely nothingness photo but I just wanna have that light.
It’s a camera. Yeah, it takes photos, etc, etc, but being back here when using a Pentax,
it's giving me nostalgia overdrive.
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So there we are, that's the Pentax. It’s got good lenses and good image quality, so much to like about it.
Retro. It’s got the OG style, that prism is very much Pentax. All the styling cues.
[Lok: yeah I know a lot of people would like their digital camera looks like film camera,
but this is not in a good way.
I don't think this is in a good way, this looks like those from the 90s, those things that stuck in the middle,
not very manual, not very automatic kind of]
You like stuff of a certain era as well.
[Lok: I like those in, I like my Olympus.]
No, not...
[Lok: Manual camera, manual film camera] No, I think there's stuff you like from the 90s that you're
[Lok: Sega Megadrive] Yes.
[Lok: No it doesn't look good, it looks like, it looks like this,
I mean, it’s kind of cool but it’s kind of cool, it’s kind of cool for 16 years old.] Contradicting.
[Lok: It's kind of cool for 16 years old when I was 16 years old, that was good, but this is like.
now it’s like, well. What is that sticking out for? Look at that manual.]
I know, we were just talking about Sega Megadrive and how you remember it, and it’s kind of cool.
[Lok: It’s kind of cool when it’s in the 90s, not now, can you touch it?]
No, you can touch the screen but it won't do anything.
[Lok: You won't do anything. ] No. [Lok: Do you have to use a pen or something?]
That would be tacky, Lok.
[Lok: Let, let me balance it that I do like replaceable grips. Have different size. Yeah, it has different size. ]
Yeah. I thought it'd be cool if it was just completely flat, you know like those old film SLRs. [Lok: Yeah. ]
But underneath it, it’s got some exposed parts, so
[Lok: So get a Fuji.]
Seeing that prism shape, the branding, the lenses, for someone who used to enjoy Pentax film cameras,
it triggers something in me.
It touches a soft spot and I don't mean my balls.
For me, when I was in university, there was always something kind of arty about Pentax,
and it was kind of, a bit left-field, it’s a bit, you know Nikon and Canon, they’re the mainstream brands. [Lok: Underdog]
Yeah, it's like, I'm not gonna accept your, your mainstream brands.
I'm gonna be a bit different and that, was Pentax to me.
This is not a camera for hipsters, you know? This, this isn't meant to be trendy.
This is a workhorse of a camera.
This doesn't hide the fact that photography is a geeky hobby.
It’s for geeks. It’s for geeks.
Perhaps it isn’t in favour with your hipsters although they did try to be uber hip, uber modern with the k-01.
It's terrible. It's, it's atrocious.
I think the best thing for Pentax, is not in looking forwards, but rather back to their glory days.
Some notable brands survived from selling nostalgia, and perhaps, that is what should be Pentax's main appeal.
Alright, I might not have actually switched.
The same old camera [Lok: Same old camera. ]
I just have a lot of bloody cameras.
But for me, there's always gonna be a special place, for a bit of Pentax love.
I mean, it usually looks better on the plate, doesn't it? It looks a bit alien, like a tank
[Lok: When it’s moving.] When it’s moving, can't trust it. Looks a little, kind of, look at its mouth!