Honestly if you are constantly around shooters with the top end Canon and Nikon bodies it's not difficult to realise the shortcomings of the Pentax system currently, and I'm including the 645D as I'm also around new Blads. There's nothing stopping you from enjoying your K5, it's a great camera for a huge number of owners I'm sure but it certainly does have limitations for those of us who want a more capable body to support their lenses and enable them to explore more demanding subjects and photographic situations. Unfortunately as has been seen here and on other Pentax related forums many such photographers have migrated to other systems as their finances allowed, me I just have to wait until Pentax raises their own bar.
The dust removal is on the K5 is ultrasonic not the old ram the sensor into a stop method. My issue is with a significant amount of noise being generated by the body whenever the sensor is supposed to be effectively locked in place such as during long exposures or whilst in sensor clean mode. On 27 August 2013 14:54, Bipin Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > I am told dust removal on the K-5 is based on ultrasonics. > Hence one can't hear any perceptible noise not even a gentle purr > like on my K20D. > I have put the body to my ears a number of times. I can't even feel a > vibration as with my K20D. > At first this worried me, as I was not sure if the dust removal menu > was working at all. > I bought my K-5 with the 18-135 WR Lens in late January 2013 from > Henrys of Toronto for CAD 1108. I have checked that it was the Ricoh > manufactured model with a shutter count of (1) from the first photo I took. > My K-5 is awesome, as the combo takes great photos - almost two times > the sharpness, color and contrast of the AL II Kit Lens. > Hope we now have some happy K-5 Users out there or do I need to be > unhappy? > Regards. > Bipin. > > -- > 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. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
