On 1/9/2017 9:25 AM, Gonz wrote:
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.
You wouldn't know it from looking at my pictures, but I'm actually
pretty picky about my gear.
I bought into Pentax in the mid 1980s and spent the next nearly 3
decades being frustrated with my 35mm gear. Great lenses, but the bodies
always seemed to have something wonky that compromised them.
I'm not frustrated anymore.
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.
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