Paul, will you please knock it off!! I'm sold and I think my wife is weakening even though there's no Vodka involved in this case. ;) I'm still attempting to be practical and patient until more formal evaluations have been relished. Your judgment highly regarded, Paul.
Jack --- On Fri, 11/5/10, paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > From: paul stenquist <[email protected]> > Subject: k-5, still early, but... > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, November 5, 2010, 8:28 PM > Pentax seems to have a slam dunk > here. Image quality is indisputably the equal of many 24 x > 36 cameras (all DSLRs have a "full frame"), and based on > statistical evidence it surpasses a number of them. Based on > my own observations after a couple hundred frames, the > camera is amazingly capable. > > The jury is still out on other things. Autofocus is > definitely much improved. Hard to see for sure how good it > is. But it's better than the K7, which was better than the > K20. Exposure accuracy seems to be at least as good as the > K7, which is excellent in that regard. > > And one more thing: the shutter is even quieter than that > of the K-7. And that's very quiet indeed. > > I am very pleased, and the Pentax decision to focus on > APS-C sized sensors and medium format appears to have been a > very good one. > > Paul > -- > 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. > -- 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.
