Yes, I feel your pain because I've felt the same way since I bought my first SLR: a Pentax ME-Super with a 50mm 1.4 lens. While it seemed to be a great body, too many of my pics were not exposed right. When I borrowed a friends Nikon FE (or FM) + 50mm 1.4 lens, I was shocked at the perfect exposures and beautiful renditions. I almost jumped to Nikon, but the system was so much more expensive to my college tastes than Pentax. So here I am....
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> >> >> >> > > > -- > 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.
