Congrats with a new camera. K-5 sure is a very fine model, but the problems you are referring to are real for some users. I noticed myself the week I got mine that indoor focusing was not up to the K-7 level. It has some pretty heavy front focusing with _some_ lenses at low light level. I can understand that this is not tolerated by a great part of the customers which have this problem. It's no big deal for me as I can use liveview contrast focusing the few times I need AF in low light indoors. In daylight it is as good as it can get.
But it also seems I have non-removable dust on my camera which is easily visible on a 24" monitor without zooming in. It's a rather large cluster of dust in the center of the image. Each dust particle is not easily visible, but the cluster is. It is only visible at f/16 and smaller apertures so again it doesn't bother me much. But I will have it fixed anyway as it does have an influence on the second-hand value of my camera. FA*24/2: Are you interested in having a look at it this weekend? Stig Vidar Hovland -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of DagT Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 2:56 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: K-3 I sold my K20D today and will get the K-5 this week. The reason is that I found that K-5 has improvements in the areas I wanted, such as size, frame rate, noise, AF etc. I suspect that most improvements from now will be in areas that I´m not interested in, such as video, 3D, HDR, picture modes etc. Just look at the negative comments to K-5 on dpreview, most of them have nothing to do with using RAW format and taking pictures. So I found that K-5 is good enough, so I could get it and enjoy it, and wait a couple of generations before updating again. I believe (hope) that camera technology has matured now, at least when it comes to taking pictures. There was a thread about a DA*24 that was deleted last week from dpreview. If true I think that would be a better way to spend money in the future... DagT >Looking at Pentax's apparent "schedule" for new models - based on past >introductions ... > >Is is reasonable to expect the "K-3", or whatever they'll decide to >call the K-5's successor, is probably going to show up sometime around >Christmas 2011? > >I'm thinking in terms of advance planning for my next camera's budget >timetable. > -- 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.
