K5 performance

Mine is the same Maria, it's very inconsistent, sometimes back focusses and sometimes front focusses with the same lens! The K-5iis does not have this issue.

Regards
David

Hi John, well as an example i went out in October on quite a sunny afternoon, i was under the trees with the sun shining down which was quite low by that time, auto focus wasn't a problem for a few of the shots but then it started doing it's usual back focus front focus noisy sound, i switched the ISO up which solved it for a while but then gave up and used manual, this is a problem i am having most of the time

Hi David, i wish i had waited a little longer and bought K-5iis, the K5 is a smashing camera in every other respect especially the noise reduction on high ISO which the K7 couldn't compete with, i do use manual a lot especially for flowers but for portraits i like to use auto focus if possible, i'm really finding it a problem

If you're having such problems then if it isn't a fault in the lens (does it happen with all lenses?) it must be a camera fault. If that is the case, it won't get better until you bite the bullet and send it off to be fixed.

I happened to have spotted your picture of the Korean Dancer before seeing this thread. I happened to think it was one of the most impressive pictures I have seen. I cannot imagine what you would think is missing!

It's happened with more than one lens John, but i've noticed other people have had the same problem.

I was taking low light photos of a play last night with the K5 and the autofocus was very hit and miss, accentuated because of the wide aperture. But I can live with it, it's not why I bought the K5.