The latest camera that I’ve been using here is the PENTAX MX-1 which PENTAX themselves has loaned to me to use. If you haven’t read my hands-on review yet, you can check it out here. One of the better places I like to visit when taking sample photos are outdoor gardens and for this shoot, I was lucky enough to be in a city that has an incredible botanical garden, the Naples Botanical Gardens in the lovely city of Naples, FL.

For most of these shots, I had the camera set to aperture priority mode which lets the camera choose shutter speeds while I choose the aperture. I also had to set the camera up for macro mode for some as well as using the 1cm macro mode for super closeups. You can probably tell which ones those are.

Overall, I’ll have to say that the PENTAX MX-1 produced some very good photos that I did not need to edit. The colors are nice and rich and you can really see the details with the macro shots. I’m also very impressed with the fact that for most of these shots, I don’t really see the need to even have to edit them in Lightroom as they looks pretty good as is. For Bokeh fans, you can see too that the MX-1 produces some really great blurring when set at a low aperture setting resulting in a really shallow depth of field.

Below is a small taste of the photos I’ve taken with the MX-1 but if you want to see the entire gallery of samples, please check out my Flickr page here. The photos here have been resized for the web but the ones on my Flickr page are at full resolution. None of the photos were edited and are presented as is straight from the MX-1.

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