Congratulations to Grace! We all watched her grow up, and loved every image of it!
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 5:47 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@mac.com> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
