On Fri., Dec. 4, 2020, 4:52 p.m. Larry Colen, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > On Dec 4, 2020, at 2:13 PM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Fri., Dec. 4, 2020, 12:31 p.m. Ralf R Radermacher, <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> Am 04.12.20 um 19:16 schrieb Rick Womer: > >> > >>> When the K-5 came out, I waited a year for the bugs to get squashed, > and > >> then got one. > >> > >> Ah, the famous adhesive bubbles on the display problem. I had one from > >> the very first batch and eventually git to K-5 number 4 or 5 before the > >> trouble ended. Still, that was one fine camera only to be outdone by the > >> K-3 that I'm still using. > >> > > > > The K7 had the nicest flesh tone rendering of any digital camera I've > used, > > but it didn't like being used off of base ISO. It got really noisy really > > quickly. > > My K20 was fine at low ISO and sucked when pushed at all. Unfortunately, > most of my photography at the time was in low light, and My K-x certainly > rocked in that department. > > > I was doing most of my shooting in the studio, so I was good with it. > > I was an early adoptor of the K5 which was something of a mistake. My K5 > > pretty much sucked donkey balls. It was the worst camera I have ever > used, > > and is the reason I ended up buying a couple of Fuji bodies and half a > > dozen lenses. > > I wanted a camera that worked. > > Interesting, I’ve had great luck with K-5s. It was the first digital > camera I had that pretty much covered my critical needs, though the K-3 and > K-1 cover a bunch more of my serious wants. > My K5 had irreparable inaccurate auto focus. It was good outdoors as long as the subjects were neutral, but tungsten light, actually any light other than broad daylight, rendered the AF useless. The first few runs of the K5 had a variety of issues, all fairly major. My understanding is most of them got fixed as the camera matured. bill > -- 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.
