Good advice! Difficult to time, but the longer you wait the better the chance of avoiding the "blob" and, also, realizing a lower purchase price. It is, however, an exercise in self control. :( Do you suppose that later production will negate the need to install previously released firmware?
Jack --- On Tue, 12/7/10, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Boris Liberman <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: K-5 Focusing Speed -- My Opinion > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 6:31 AM > On 12/7/2010 4:27 PM, P N Stenquist > wrote: > > Low light autofocus is much improved in the K-5, but > mainly with the > > SDM lenses. In regard to the sensor blobs, this > shouldn't be a > > problem a month or two down the road, as Pentax > (and/or Sony) will > > undoubtedly take steps to resolve the problem, and > once the current > > stock is off the shelves, it should be a safe bet. > Paul > > Paul's right. Whoever wanted to buy K-5 /right here right > now/ is better hold their horses. This is what I plan on > doing. > > It seems to me that most if not all manufacturers rush > their products to the market and the earliest adopters play > certain gamble here. No offense to you, Paul or anyone else > here who /already/ bought K-5's. I was like this with K-7 > and got reasonably lucky. So, indeed, if one can wait, one > would be better off both from resolved issues and relaxed > price points of view. > > IMHO. > > Boris > > -- 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.
