On Dec 26, 2012, at 12:29 PM, William Robb wrote: > On 26/12/2012 9:50 AM, Michael Adam Maas wrote: >> > >> That said, the D600 shares the D7000's AF tech, which is considered to >> be significantly better than the K-5's poor unit by the accepted >> wisdom (and probably is, when shooting AF-C in good light) >> > Having used the D7K briefly, I am quite certain that the K5 AF is somewhat > slower in good light with AF-S, and there is no contest in AF-C. > Where the K5 falls down is in low artificial light, especially tungsten > illumination. It is entirely possible that they have made some hardware > changes since the camera's introduction (I have a very early K5), but in the > studio, the AF on my K5 is worse than useless. It randomly front focuses by > varying amounts, so there is no possibility of doing an AF bias to bring the > focus into reliable adjustment.
I wonder if your K5 is related to my AF540, in that you have consistent strange problems that just aren't indicative of my experience. The vast majority of my mis-focus issues with the K5 are simply cases of it focusing on the wrong thing. Even in dim tungsten light. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
