Hello there!
After many months of fervent saving, and a gift of cash this Christmas, I was delighted this to recieve my brand new Pentax K-5 this morning, in the post from SRS Microsystems. However, on powering up the camera and testing it, two faults soon became very apparent:
Firstly (and perhaps less importantly) the centre AF focus point indicator is slighty misaligned in the viewfinder. It's not misaligned by much, perhaps by about the size of one of the red squares, but it's still immediately appaerent when looking through the viewfinder. It doesn't appear to affect the operation of the camera, though. AF locks on ver quickly and accurately.
The second problem is a lot more concerning (and dissapointing) to me. After familiarising myself with the basic controls of the camera, I set the camera to expanded sensitivity mode (80-51200) and as you'd expect that's the ISO range I got. However, after about forty test shots the ISO inadvertently switched itself from 80 to 160, and will not go any lower. I tried taking the camera out of expanded sensitivity - at which point the minimum ISO becomes 200 - and putting it back again, but it makes no difference, the minimum ISO still remains at 160. This is really dissapointing to me, as that lower stop of sensitivity was really important to me, and a key motivating factor for me to buy the camera in the first place!
What I'm basically wanting to to know is if these problems have been reported by other users, and what tends to cause them? I want something factual to tell the people at the camera shop over the phone, in case they try to be difficult when I ask if I can have my camera repaired.
Thank you in advance!