On 1/26/2016 8:59 PM, Doug Brewer wrote:
Hi, troops. As you can see, my beloved K-7 is about to bit the dust.
It's become a little reluctant to change shutter speeds, and I'm not
sure what shutter speed it's ever on any more. I have used and abused it
for years, and now it's tired and wants to go home.
I can maybe afford,if a client comes through, a used K5, and here's my
question: is it worth getting. I know there have been upgrades to it,
but it seems to have gotten decent reviews whe it came out.
My other option is to spend a bit more and upgrade my Fuji X100 to the
X100S, but that would put me out of the Pentax game. I'd like to stick
around, maybe, if the K5 is worth it.
What say you?
If you can get a later model K5, they worked most of the bugs out of it,
but it wasn't really that good of a camera. The reports of buttons
falling off, front and back focusing depending on light colour and the
dreaded sensor spots on the early ones are all true.
I had an early adapters version of the K5 and it truly was a piece of
crap, and part of the reason why I am now shooting Fuji as my day to day
cameras.
The K5II is what the K5 would have been except for Hoya screwing it up
(I'm glad they are taking it up the hind end with the endoscopes class
action suit, it's fitting justice for the K5)
bill
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