Side to side slant but not forward tilt. Also on the K-5 you can programme the RAW button to switch this on and off.

16.3Mp. Slant and tilt level indicator. In camera hand held HDR. How low an ISO are you talking about? Even at 400 the K-5 is better.

But I agree the K-7 is a worthy camera and I will keep using mine as well as the K-5 to save changing from wide to long lenses.

FWIW I have owned both the K10D and the K20D, both sold on and now I have the K-7 and K-5. The K-7 is a great camera but I do like the new features in the K-5. In particular the extra resolution, which helps with cropping and still getting A3 prints and the much improved high ISO noise as I like to do hand held late evening street photography, where a tripod is not always welcome.

Other than that, I found the K-7 to be more than adequate and a great improvement over the K20D for live view etc.

Yes the Z1-p does do that. I have one and always leave it on that setting.

Superb viewfinder, much bigger than my K-5. Everytime I use it, I find myself looking at the back after I have taken a shot! Nothing there of course!

Mine came with the pentax 28-105 f/4-5.6 power zoom lens.

I wonder if these are appearing after the sensor has got hot from use? Oil or whatever becoming more fluid and spreading?? Just a thought.

Thanks John,

I have been waylaid recently with flu and an increase in workload. I will pay more attention to this site than before.

For my sins, I have bought the K-5. I recently sold my K20D for a good price, so with that and the cashback offer, I did not need to put too much towards it. Before it arrived, I thought I would keep the K-7 as a spare body, but the performance of the K-5 is so good, I think I will be using the K-7 less and less. It is still a worthy camera though and good to have the backup it affords.

I also want to do more tranny work with my Z1-p, this is such a superb film camera it seems wrong to not use it.....


Best wishes,

David.

Hello John,

This issue runs deep with me. I have for many years been a subscriber to a well known weekly photographic magazine and respected their reviews, but recently I have detected what I consider to be understated praise for Pentax. The recent review of the K-5 had, I thought, to be read with a view to reading between the lines, as in my opinion, the reviewer seemed to be restrained somehow. For example, the camera was given 85% overall, with only 80% for build quality. How realistic is that?

Also it was suggested that it was in the same class as the Canon 60D, £200 cheaper and with a polycarbonate body. Surely it relates more to the 7D than the 60D???

I will never know, probably, what drives these reviews or why they do not seem to be 'up to the mark' as I see it. Is it that as I do not get to handle and use a wide range of kit I do not have a real comparison? perhaps I am biased too for the wrong reasons.

In any case, I now much prefer to rely on DPR and comments from users, rather than magazines which may appear to have leanings in a particular direction, for whatever reason. It is just sad that Pentax have to suffer such understated praise in this way, as the general public may not really know what to believe. I just hope that potential new users of dslr's will look at Pentax with a fresh eye. This may be helped by the fact the Jessops are now stocking them and have them on display in the shops.

Nice to see that they have reconsidered their position, which suggests to me that they must consider the current line up to have potential.

is your new one OK? I assume it is, as you did not say it wasn't.

I also use small apertures and print large up to A2+ and I use a macro lens, so this issue was important to me to get it right.

I am 99.9% sure that mt new one, when it arrives, will be OK.

Yes indeed, the Canon G10 had a recall because of lines across the sensor, but fortunately mine did not have the problem. These things happen, look how many cars are recalled for various reasons.

What matters is how the customers are treated.

The 20 new cameras thet SRS were getting were not for replacing duff ones AFAIK. I got the impression that they were mostly new stock satisfying back orders. I think that this camera is selling well, dispite the problem, which SRS told me was a small number in relation to total sales.

lets not blow this up out of proportion. We all want Pentax to thrive.