Alan is correct about my K5. I also have no complaints about the AF. One thing that I have done with each of my camera purchases (Super Program, istD, K10D, K20D, K7, K5, a K50 for my daughter and a K70 for my wife) is waiting to order until at least a year after introduction, so that most of the bugs have been squashed.
Rick > On Mar 15, 2021, at 10:28 AM, Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 3/15/2021 8:06 AM, Alan C wrote: >> My K5 (ex Mark Cassino) is just great & hasn't given any problems. I'm sure >> Rick Womer feels the same. No buttons have fallen off & the AF is excellent. >> However, I believe there were some dicey K5's sold at the end of the Hoya >> era. > > Sure, I hear that a lot from K5 owners who haven't been subjected to the > horrors that the K5 was prone to. It seems people just want to be in denial > and discount the very real problems that the K5 had. > Pretty much all the K5s that Hoya made came with built in problems that > affected a very high percentage of cameras. Ricoh couldn't fix all of them > because there were irreparable design flaws within the camera, hence the K5II > and K5IIs. The IIs had no AA filter. > > My K5 didn't have the sensor spots, or the falling off buttons or the dials > that inexplicably stopped working, or the mirror overrun, or the (I believe > related) mirror lock, but it did have AF that was so unreliable as to render > the feature useless. Hoya put out several firmware updates designed to fix > the AF issue, none of which did any good. Eventually, they just lost interest > in trying to fix the bodge that they had created and decided that ignoring > the problems would make them go away. > > The K5 was one of the major reasons I invested heavily into the Fuji X > system. I decided that I needed a camera that worked. > > bill > >> Alan C >> On 15-Mar-21 03:53 PM, Bill wrote: >>> The K5II is what the K5 should have been, had there been adults in the >>> room. It seems to have solved all of the niggly K5 problems that were not >>> resolved during production, such as buttons falling off and the AF being as >>> reliable as a 10 year old Skoda. >>> It is a big jump from the K10, enjoy it. >>> >>> bill >>> >>> On 3/15/2021 1:28 AM, David Mann wrote: >>>> It's been a long time since I bought anything photographic but I recently >>>> found a used K5ii at a reasonable price, and it arrived today. This is a >>>> big upgrade from my K10D. >>>> >>>> I went outside and took a couple of photos just after my daughter went to >>>> bed but the light was getting a bit low. No problem, I can crank up the >>>> ISO :) >>>> >>>> This was taken with the FA*200mm f/2.8 at 6400ISO, 1/125 at f/5.0 >>>> handheld, very much reliant on shake reduction. >>>> >>>> http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1096/#peso >>>> >>>> I'll check whether it's on the latest firmware soon. To their credit, >>>> Ricoh's website made the manual and firmware very easy to find. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Dave >>>> -- >>>> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >>>> >>> -- >>> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
