I have a good K5. Excellent high ISO. Autofocus was as good as my K7. Grace uses the K7 now. (She graduated from 8th grade today!)
Paul > On Jun 1, 2018, at 4:47 PM, Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 6/1/2018 11:46 AM, Alan C wrote: >> I used a K7 for about 4 years. I shot mostly in bright light. Good up to ISO >> 400, tolerable at 800, hopeless beyond. (About the same as my K110D!) Now I >> have a K5 which is OK even at 3200. Everything else seems much the same as >> the K7. No electronic problems. Can't imagine why your AF was so bad? > > The AF on mine was particularly colour sensitive. Depending on the colour of > the subject, it would front focus, back focus or every now and again, would > get it right. Mine was so bad that shooting exactly the same scene outdoors, > if a cloud covered the sun, the colour of the light would change enough to > knock the focus off. > This was a known issue with the K5, in fact I recall it was the first issue > that was discovered with that camera. I recall some guy on Pentax forums > tried taking a picture of his car of some such under street light conditions > and found the camera was front focusing be several feet, when in daylight it > was fine. > I'm not sure if they got everything fixed on the K5 during it's run, but in > addition to the AF issues, they had problems with spots of cement on the > sensor on early ones and buttons falling off. > Apparently if you got a good one, they were very good indeed. I wasn't so > lucky. > > bill > > -- > 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.
