K7 Returned Twice

The Pentax Gods are not smiling on me

I got one of the first batch and the the SR didn't work at all (nor the horizon correction, which I suspect is related).

I got a replacement (great service once again from SRS ), but with this one manual focus was way off.
This was particularly noticeable with a fast lens like the 55/1.4, where after AF the viewfinder image looked OOF but the resulting picture was sharp.
MF'ing until the viewfinder image did look sharp resulted in an OOF picture.

At least the SR did work with the second one, but comparing the its effectiveness against my K20D I was only getting 2 stops improvement.
The K20D was consistently giving me 3-4 stops (with the same lens, subject and exposure).

Has anyone else had similar experiences?

R

Sorry to hear about the problem Reuben....

It appears that you have a batch of iffy-QC'd K-7s

Yes because I had the diopter not right adjusted

Throw the lens out of focus and point it at a wall or something so that you don't see anything distracting in the screen, now adjust the diopter till you see the information in your viewfinder sharp.

Just read my own commentwith a bit more fresh eyes and mind, the first sentance wasn't an attack on you Reuben it was just something I had troubles myself with a lot. That's were that yellow thing is for

I was going to suggest the diopter as i did the same thing

I had adjusted the diopter, otherwise nothing would look in focus

The point I was making (obviously badly :blush was that the MF focus point did not agree with the AF focus point.
My K20d (& *istD) are fine in this regard.
I wonder if Pentax are having trouble calibrating the new 100% viewfinder?

R

Bad luck Reuben, I hope you are third time lucky with the replacement K-7.

Touch wood, my K-7 has been fine in all regards so far

Thanks Greytop, although I've decided that there won't be a third time for the moment

R