I SO agree with you about that chip onth shoulder, Larry. I had the same experience in 2009 with the K-7 vs. various Canon cameras, including the then very new 7D, and 1Ds Mk III.
On that infamous trip to Antarctica we had a few calm evenings on the rear deck of the boat, photographing seabirds in flight. The K-7 would lock focus for a long time after the last cursing Canonite had retired to the lounge, complaining about their cameras' limitations in low light. This spring I had an interesting experience photographing base jumpers at Kjerag with the 645D, in company of a crowd of Canon and Nikon users. The shaft-driven AF of 645D was every bit as able to single out the jumpers from the background, it seemed. The comparison is not really head to head, though, because the low frame rate of the 645D demands a different shooting style. :-) But in sum, I think Pentaxians have far less to be ashamed of than we usually express in forums. Jostein Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >Marco came over to whiskymas for a while tonight, and brought his D600. >I didn't get a lot of time to play with it but we did spend a few >minutes doing some low light focus tests, and the K-5 definitely >outperformed the D600. It was dim light, the K-5 was able to lock >focus, albeit with a bit of hunt and seek, and the D600 simply wasn't >able to lock focus. > >It may be time for Pentaxians to get rid of the chip on our shoulder >about autofocus. Particularly without the assist light. Considering >this was the K-5's weak spot and the K5-II is supposed to be much >better, it would be really interesting to see how the K5-II stacks up >against the D600 in low light focus. > >-- >Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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.
