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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