Here! Here! ...... Send Walkeja away for scientific testing

If it wasn't very close to 100% they would not have called it 100%
Trade descriptions and all that

For the record the optical viewfinder on a K-5 is very close to 100%. It does give very slightly more maybe 1% to be on the safe side.

The LV is less than 100% probably 98-99%

You can't have parallax errors either. It's either on the ground glass or it isn't.

The only sensible explanation I can see is that Walkeja has been given a K-3 with an APS-C finder and a FF Sensor by mistake

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Sorry I meant Bill not Wilf

That's normal and is why focusing is sometimes difficult. Just shine a torch into the lens and see the aperture open and close. From memory it uses 2 stop increments so f2.8 then f/5.6 on the K-5.

It makes a lens with an aperture ring not set on A very useful (not many people know that ) Why buy a Pentax-A 50mm f/1.2 to use in live view when the aperture closes down to view

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Wilf I can't believe how gullible you are. Knock off manufacturers will print anything on products to lure in people such as yourself They even print Rolex on £5 watches

Batteries have been covered and tested for years, there's even people on here that have tested them. The ebay ones are usually 1200mAh. Better ones 1400mAh.

Nothing comes near the 1860mAh Pentax original either in performance or price. The better cheap batteries offer value in terms of cost per mAh.

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Probably smaller batteries inside and packed with FLOUR!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOshOXcSkDA

More detailed photos......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzzfzGJpUS8
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Beware of Fake Genuine Batteries.......

One trader got caught selling Canon and Nikon

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/local/man-who-sold-fake-canon-batteries-o...


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Show me how steady your hands are

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I meant to go Thursday, but finished up in Tesco's instead.

500ml cans of Tanglefoot were on offer at £8 for a 2 pack so they'll do until next week. Still got some bottles of Bombardier as well ..... slurp! slurp!

I've never understood why Sainsbury's don't compete on beer prices

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I've just tried on a K-5 with a Pentax-K 50mm f/1.2 and it does seem to meter correctly in LV. LV is always wide open at f/1.2 except for the very short time it meters.

I also tried a Pentax-A 50mm f/1.4 and in non-A mode set at f/11 it closes down to meter and then opens up again. It seems to stay closed down for longer though.... nearly a second so maybe it meters differently than the K lens.

On the A setting it doesn't seem to close down, but the iris was partly closed anyway. If you shine a torch at the lens you can see the iris open and close.

Both lenses have perfect snappy aperture blades.

Possibly the K-3 works differently?

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