On Nov 6, 2010, at 12:10 AM, Christine Aguila wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "paul stenquist" <[email protected]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 10:28 PM > Subject: k-5, still early, but... > > >> Pentax seems to have a slam dunk here. Image quality is indisputably the >> equal of many 24 x 36 cameras (all DSLRs have a "full frame"), and based on >> statistical evidence it surpasses a number of them. Based on my own >> observations after a couple hundred frames, the camera is amazingly capable. >> >> The jury is still out on other things. Autofocus is definitely much >> improved. Hard to see for sure how good it is. But it's better than the K7, >> which was better than the K20. Exposure accuracy seems to be at least as >> good as the K7, which is excellent in that regard. >> >> And one more thing: the shutter is even quieter than that of the K-7. And >> that's very quiet indeed. >> >> I am very pleased, and the Pentax decision to focus on APS-C sized sensors >> and medium format appears to have been a very good one. > > > Looks like I might be putting my K10D & K20D up for sale. Thanks for the > update, Paul. I have a very serious eye on the K5. But if you do any more > testing on the low light autofocus I'd very much like to hear about your > results. Cheers, Christine
I don't think I'll do any quantitative testing, but I'll continue to make observations. I have found the K-5 capable of focusing in near dark rooms where the K-7 would not be able to focus, and it locks in fairly quickly. I'm more interested in how it will handle moving objects. I wish it wasn't so cold out. I'd like to take Grace to the park and shoot her on the swing. I know my hit ratio on that was about one out of two with the K-7. Paul > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
