On 15 April 2013 18:12, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > What photos are you losing because your gear isn't performing well enough, or > because it doesn't have a feature that you need? And in what situations does > this present itself? If there is a work around, what do you need to do to > get the shot? > > Poor autofocus? Can't use the flash in the rain? Don't have enough > resolution to make wall sized prints?
With the K5 I mainly lose pics due to poor AF in low light, supposedly the solution is to upgrade to K5II bodies but frankly in the swap I would get stuff all but the AF that the K5 should have had for significantly added expense. The only other really irritating issue for me is that when using my 80-200/2.8 the camera gets into a mode where it where it just will not lock focus regardless of the target illumination/contrast. The remedy is to cycle the power which whilst not a huge imposition can make the difference between getting the shot and not and basically it just shouldn't behave like that of course. I have had my K5 bodies do the complete lock-up which when using the grip can take some time to recover from. If I used non-studio flash I guess I would have a lot more to complain about too :) -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
