Well, this is pretty much the situation I'm in right now. I guess I could take a leap of faith and try the K-1. The worst that can happen is that I am not happy and I sell it at a small loss. I'm so invested in good Pentax glass that it would be a shame not to try .and. .give. .them. .one. .more. .chance.
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/8/2017 3:04 PM, Gonz wrote: >> >> Question: How is the K-1 autofocus, as compared to say, a K-5? I was >> looking through a batch of pictures I took recently at a family >> gathering and was appalled by the autofocus performance. Many of the >> shots were off, lost forever. So bad that I started looking at other >> systems like Nikon D500, etc, which reviewers say is on par with their >> flagship D5. >> >> I just don't want to invest in a 2K camera if they haven't at least >> made this essential (to my tired old eyes) part work much better. No >> matter that I have $$$$ tied up in so many Pentax lenses. >> >> > > The AF in the K5 very nearly chased me away from Pentax. In fact, it was one > of the reasons I invested rather heavily in Fuji. I was tired of cameras > that plain and simply didn't work. The problem with the K5 was that Hoya was > try9ng to eke every penny they could out of their unwanted camera division, > and every component of the K5 was compromised. If you had a camera that > worked, you were golden, but the problems with the K5 were legion, the AF > being front and center. > > Ricoh, in their wisdom, corrected seemingly every problem that Hoya built > into the Pentax line during their abysmal ownership. > The K1 AF actually works, and works very well indeed. I don't know if it's > up to Nikon D5 standards, but it is fast, and more to the point, when it > says it has locked focus, it means it has locked onto the subject, not some > point in space a few feet in front of or behind. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -- Reduce your Government Footprint -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
