Is this a record? The K-5 hasn't even been available for a few months and the group is already talking about a K-3.
Star to has-been in record time. George Sinos -------------------- [email protected] www.georgesphotos.net On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:14 PM, paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting, I'm using both a K-5 and a K-7 for some jobs. When I need good > low light focus, I always to with the K-5. In my case, it's much better than > the K-7. Doesn't hunt at all and locks right on, even in light that requires > f4, 1/30th and ISO 6400. No sensor smudges either. But I've always been lucky > with equipment. (Working the Detroit auto show right now, but as a writer > rather than a photographer, so I brought only a P&S.) > Paul > > On Jan 10, 2011, at 10:50 AM, SV Hovland wrote: > >> 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. > > > -- > 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.
