KT88 Power Tubes
Got a Pentax k5 II s during the week. Very nice camera. Here's one of the first photos (of a quad of KT88 power tubes for my Leben CS-600 tube amplifier.
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Posted 09/06/2026 - 09:56
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Simonmac wrote:
Good shot. And I miss this camera......
Thank you, and I know exactly what you mean. There's something about the K5 that's hard to let go of. What is it you miss most about yours?Good shot. And I miss this camera......
I'd been on the lookout for the s version of the K5 and ended up finding a fine specimen from a Japanese seller on eBay last week.
I got the first edition of the K5 around 2009 and wore it down from heavy use. The primary issue was the card slot and later on the USB port.
The last couple of years I've alternated between various Nikon cameras (all with Zeiss glass) and the Pentax K10D along with different compact cameras.
Coming back to the K5 IIs feels a bit like reuniting with an old friend.
Posted 09/06/2026 - 18:04
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kasperbergholt wrote:
I'd been on the lookout for the s version of the K5 and ended up finding a fine specimen from a Japanese seller on eBay last week.
I got the first edition of the K5 around 2009 and wore it down from heavy use. The primary issue was the card slot and later on the USB port.
The last couple of years I've alternated between various Nikon cameras (all with Zeiss glass) and the Pentax K10D along with different compact cameras.
Coming back to the K5 IIs feels a bit like reuniting with an old friend.
I have a K3II now, so the handling is similar. I use back button AF and the button is in a better place.Simonmac wrote:
Good shot. And I miss this camera......
Thank you, and I know exactly what you mean. There's something about the K5 that's hard to let go of. What is it you miss most about yours?Good shot. And I miss this camera......
I'd been on the lookout for the s version of the K5 and ended up finding a fine specimen from a Japanese seller on eBay last week.
I got the first edition of the K5 around 2009 and wore it down from heavy use. The primary issue was the card slot and later on the USB port.
The last couple of years I've alternated between various Nikon cameras (all with Zeiss glass) and the Pentax K10D along with different compact cameras.
Coming back to the K5 IIs feels a bit like reuniting with an old friend.
It is doubtless my processing, but the K5IIs' images seem more 'organic' and less digital. That may be due to the lower resolution?
Many folk have noted over the years that 16mp may have been a 'sweet spot' for APS-C.
Posted 12/06/2026 - 13:38
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Simonmac wrote:
It is doubtless my processing, but the K5IIs' images seem more 'organic' and less digital. That may be due to the lower resolution?
Many folk have noted over the years that 16mp may have been a 'sweet spot' for APS-C.
Good question about the organic feel/tonality of the K5. At one point I browsed through a couple of thousand photos covering a period of 10 years, and most of the best were taken with my K5 or K10D. kasperbergholt wrote:
I'd been on the lookout for the s version of the K5 and ended up finding a fine specimen from a Japanese seller on eBay last week.
I got the first edition of the K5 around 2009 and wore it down from heavy use. The primary issue was the card slot and later on the USB port.
The last couple of years I've alternated between various Nikon cameras (all with Zeiss glass) and the Pentax K10D along with different compact cameras.
Coming back to the K5 IIs feels a bit like reuniting with an old friend.
I have a K3II now, so the handling is similar. I use back button AF and the button is in a better place.Simonmac wrote:
Good shot. And I miss this camera......
Thank you, and I know exactly what you mean. There's something about the K5 that's hard to let go of. What is it you miss most about yours?Good shot. And I miss this camera......
I'd been on the lookout for the s version of the K5 and ended up finding a fine specimen from a Japanese seller on eBay last week.
I got the first edition of the K5 around 2009 and wore it down from heavy use. The primary issue was the card slot and later on the USB port.
The last couple of years I've alternated between various Nikon cameras (all with Zeiss glass) and the Pentax K10D along with different compact cameras.
Coming back to the K5 IIs feels a bit like reuniting with an old friend.
It is doubtless my processing, but the K5IIs' images seem more 'organic' and less digital. That may be due to the lower resolution?
Many folk have noted over the years that 16mp may have been a 'sweet spot' for APS-C.
Very few were taken with the K-1, and many of those struck me as synthetic and overdone.
Perhaps it's not so much about resolution as about colour profiles and processing?
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