| Latest Review Posted | Pentax K-1
After using it only for couple of weeks I can easily say, it is the best DSLR I've ever used and in my opinion the best DSLR on the market under $5,000.
AF speed coped a lot of criticism in the past among Pentax cameras and it was main reasons that I left Pentax a few years ago and switched to Sony. However build quality, ergonomics, usability and availability of K mount lenses and overall "Pentax feeling" won me back. I sold all of my Sony gear and got myself , what I consider an ultimate piece of photographic equipment . The masterpiece.
Of course K1 has it's flaws. No camera is perfect. AF points, IMO, should cover more of the area and should be more of them. The way they are spread, covering the central area of the focusing screen, you wouldn't find them really useful for AF tracking. But I am trying to learn to work with it.
AF in live view is a bit hesitating and sluggish. Also some of the functions on the new function dial are unnecessary doubling up already easy accessible functions. But this flaws are negligible when you put them up against an excellent high ISO performance, brilliant IQ, in body image stabilisation, pixel shift resolution, build quality, ergonomics, WR body and lenses, big, beautiful viewfinder and quirky but very useful and unique LCD screen. There is some more excellent features as TAv exposure setting, 5 user setting memories, option of extracting RAW data from the last reordered image even when file format set to JPEG and so much... |
