Originally posted by Urkeldaedalus The problem is that legitimate concerns often spiral into indictments of the entire camera. Problems focusing properly under certain conditions grows into, "I can't use my camera at above ISO3200 so why bother" (not true) or "The K-5 can't get anything in focus" (also not true) or "This is just another example of how Pentax autofocus sucks!" (well, kind of true. But the K-5 AF is a mostly great improvement over past efforts)
For example, when Falconeye showed the K-7 had some shutter blur problems under certain conditions (wide angles at f- stop 1/100) this all of a sudden became the de facto explanation for all sorts of blurry shots from people who weren't educated about what the problem actually was. As a fellow K-7 user, I'm sure you know that you have to try pretty hard to actually run into this problem, even though it exists and I'm pretty sure Pentax never solved that problem either. Doesn't make the K-7 a bad camera.
Now you've got this FF problem that has festered so totally out of proportion as to have one thread shut down and another started again to no real positive result. So blowback against threads like this becomes as inevitable as the complaints themselves, even if the intent of the original poster was innocent.
The K-5 is a great camera (the best I've ever owned) with a few flaws, some of which will hopefully be fixed, others likely will not. Personally I believe the K-5's flaws have been blown way out of proportion. This said, it's also OK if you don't want to buy it.
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I posted this in my thread about Hysteria in another forum
Hysteria Hysteria!
1) someone at some point posts: "Hey, I don't know if it's just me, but my cam/lens seems to be doing X."
2) Couple other people post "Hey, me too!"
3) Fanboys: "user error."
4) Problem-havers: "No, I know what I'm doing."
5) Hysteria-havers: "I've got it too! Look!" (shows something exhibiting probable problem "Y")
6) Fanboys: "See? That's problem 'Y'. Obviously, no-one can thus have problem 'X'!"
7) Problem-havers: "Ummm... I don't think I'm talking about the same thing."
8) Enter, Trolls: "Heee! Problem X/Y is an obvious indictment of your equipment choice, and thus yourselves!"
9) Fanboys: "&^%&%$(())%^$$#$%"
10) Problem-Havers: "Sigh. Look. I'm having problem X here."
11) Fanboys: "You're all trolls! This forum sucks now, it used to be all about the photography!"
12) Trolls: "Hee!"
13)
Hysteria is declared. Some Hysteria-havers join the ranks of trolls at this point, some Fanboys gain a hardened stance, some Fanboys recognize the possibility of X and soften. Some Problem-havers quietly leave the forum, others remain, feeling jittery and jilted for a while.
Trolls retreat under the bridge, watching.... (as always.)
Coda:
6 months later, Big Cam Co quietly releases an update that mitigates problem 'X'.
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