Originally posted by falconeye Ray,
that photo may be manual focus. At least, the subject asks for an MF technique.
Falk,
The image is part of a series. Look at the rtest of them. The subject is generally not sharp. Unless Paul is pretty good at nailing consistent FF manually, it seems to me to be a bit of a stretch to assume a manual focus error.
Clearly Pentax has a pretty big issue with the K5 and Kr cameras relative to AF in low light.
All of my Pentax digital bodies (*istds, K100D, K10, K20, and I owned at least 2 copies of each version) suffered from this to one degree or another, and you can find threads on it going back years on many sites.
However, in the case of the K5 and Kr, it seems that we have a more significant shift that is being reported by many users of both cameras in many parts of the world.
Since Pentax has allegedly upgraded the AF systems since the K10/K20 days, including the addition of a color sensing sub-system to correct for any focus shift in differing light color temperature, one would expect that the camera would focus as least as well as the older models.
If nothing else, it HAS to focus acceptably over the entire published AF range specification of -1 EV to +18 EV and I, for one, have tried 3 bodies that in NO WAY will meet this specification.
How many K5 bodies have you tested for this problem?
So, as a loyal Pentax user since 1978, is it incumbent upon me to keep paying shipping and experiencing lost time with the camera I bought to send it to the Pentax outsourced repair facility to see if they can fix it?
As soon as I send it in, I own it and if it cannot be fixed by the repair folks, what then? I have a little window left to return my 3rd body and the question is fast becoming whether I just move on to another brand?
Ray