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How tough is the K5
Hi everybody recently went on holliday and dropped my K5 on the pavement picked it cleaned it of and found a small scratch on the back still works ok. few days later tripped on a foot path dropped the K5 this time the alloy back was broken turned the camera on guess what it still worked. the camera...
Posted by python118 on 03/07/2014 - 21:22
How tough is the K5
The only problem is that when you drop them the focus screen frame tends to unclip and drop. Then you have to do some interesting shaking and rattling to get the focus screen out of the way so that you can get the lens off without mangling the screen or the mirror and clip it back in. Pentax should ...
Posted by kh1234567890 on 03/07/2014 - 23:53
How tough is the K5
The only problem is that when you drop them the focus screen frame tends to unclip and drop. Then you have to do some interesting shaking and rattling to get the focus screen out of the way so that you can get the lens off without mangling the screen or the mirror and clip it back in. Pentax should ...
Posted by fritzthedog on 04/07/2014 - 07:34
Lens fit???
Hi guys, can someone please tell me if a Pentax SMC-F Auto Focus 35-105mm F4-5.6 35mm lens will fit on either a K-5 or a K5-11s. Thanks... Also, is it worth buying at £70...
Posted by Snoops27 on 15/07/2014 - 17:48
Lens fit???
I think some of the descriptions have a tpouch of humour attached. I like F series lenses too but they aren't so popular for some reason. Perhaps the dealer will negoiate. well they're old, heavy and awkward to focus manually, but if you put some effort in you get some reward out- humour, what's tha...
Posted by spinno on 15/07/2014 - 19:54
Lens fit???
Marat wrote: I own one of these, great lens but then I am a big fan of these F and FA lenses from that period, the F35-70mm being my favourite. I also have a F35-70mm lens. This is my all time favourite. I have all sorts of other pentax lenses, Fa70mm f1.8 Fa 31,mm F1.8 and other quite expensi...
Posted by Horst on 20/07/2014 - 10:01
Buy from Japan???
Its very easy and straight forward, just bear in mind if S/H there's no warranty, you do have the protection of Ebay which is very much purchaser oriented, and if the seller says its in full working order, you have come back if that's incorrect.
Posted by Chrism8 on 19/07/2014 - 20:12
Buy from Japan???
Its very easy and straight forward, just bear in mind if S/H there's no warranty, you do have the protection of Ebay which is very much purchaser oriented, and if the seller says its in full working order, you have come back if that's incorrect. Only problem is you have to pay the return postage and...
Posted by Mike-P on 19/07/2014 - 22:34
What's the deal with Pentax's Liveview?
What's the deal with Liveview on the K5? It seems that you can't auto focus in liveview without the camra dropping the mirror, and you only have the default focus grid available. Sounds very much like its using phase detection. If that's the case doesn't it just completely defeat the point...
Posted by mikedefieslife on 20/07/2014 - 17:24
What's the deal with Pentax's Liveview?
There are 3 autofocus modes for live view ... Phase detection, contrast (face), contrast (normal). You need to set these in the camera menu before activating LV. For most situations contrast (face) is good. Its slower than phase mode (where the mirror flips up to allow light onto the af sensor), but...
Posted by McGregNi on 20/07/2014 - 17:56
What's the deal with Pentax's Liveview?
Then it's just me being silly. I can't find where you change the focus mode for LV.
Posted by mikedefieslife on 20/07/2014 - 18:34
What's the deal with Pentax's Liveview?
You have a lot of control over the placement of the autofocus position in contrast AF .... When you first see the picture on the LCD there will be a single green box in the centre. Press the OK button and you will see 4 triangles appear around the box - these are direction indicators. Now you can us...
Posted by McGregNi on 20/07/2014 - 21:42
What's the deal with Pentax's Liveview?
I've never found that focus area select to be practical, unless you're doing a stationary tripod shot. Even then from memory you can do the zoom in trick and actually move that zoomed in point around, over to the point you're interested in. Add focus peaking onto this and it's more accurate in my ...
Posted by richandfleur on 20/07/2014 - 23:03
What's the deal with Pentax's Liveview?
Not saying it doesn't work, just saying with the live view zoom and confirm method I haven't found the need to do the focus point select thing any more. You're also limited to the available focus points on the Pentax unit, whereas the live view zoom, peak, confirm approach means you're free to do t...
Posted by richandfleur on 21/07/2014 - 01:54
Help with K3
Just been using my K3, and it has an interesting anomaly… When I switch it on, the focus icon flashes furiously between MF & AF numerous times per second and also the AF selection icon flashes furiously too. Switching off & on doesn't help. Even removing the batteries doesn't help. Had to rem...
Posted by alig on 20/07/2014 - 18:21
K3 heat wierdness
it's all I can think of. it almost basically master rest itself to basic I was in manual mode at the time. all the tweaks turned back on, and RAW went back to PEF format which I never use.
Posted by Lancer3397 on 21/07/2014 - 10:40
K3 heat wierdness
Oddly enough I had a similar problem with my K3, running the latest, V1.10, firmware, at Farnborough on Friday which was also a very hot day peaking at around 30c. In the middle of shooting a sequence of an aircraft I particularly wanted to capture the camera just stopped responding to the shutte...
Posted by GlynM on 21/07/2014 - 11:45
K3 heat wierdness
Were you using a battery grip and was it turned to "on"? I have seen some inexplicable (and unreproducible) behaviors from my K-3 when the battery grip is turned to "on". I generally turn it off and things quickly get back to normal. YMMV Michael
Posted by MJSfoto1956 on 21/07/2014 - 18:40
What do you think?
I suppose Nigel that it will be helpful in keeping up the Pentax tradition of backwards compatibility. Those who want the features of a new FF body but can't afford to replace all the lenses will be able to still use them. As the pixel count is likely to be 24MP or even 36MP, the cropped setting wou...
Posted by johnriley on 27/07/2014 - 16:58
Pentax 645Z Photos
Bob, With all due respect, based on the above images, don't rush in too quick as these are not good examples of what the camera can do. I'm struggling to see what you focused on. Best regards I'm sure they are not the best that the 645Z can do! I must admit to just taking the camera out of t...
Posted by doingthebobs on 26/07/2014 - 20:41
