Originally posted by Nicolas06 This is not K3 AF is bad, it is really great for everything except maybe very fast moving objects.
And why is it that the only measure of AF is tracking something that is moving fast? I for one have never used the AF-C function, I don't shoot things that move.
On the k-5 I used to shoot 3, 4, 5 frames of the same thing to be sure one was in focus. I continued that on the k-3 until I realized ALL of the frames were in focus and I was just wasting time trying to figure out which was better. Now I shoot one frame, and it is in focus. How much better can this get?
Sorry, pet peeve of mine is the constant complaints about Pentax AF when in fact it is near perfect. Now if you are complaining about object TRACKING, that is something else. I think we do Pentax a disservice by constantly complaining about the AF without defining what is meant. Any casual reader to these forums would go away with the idea that Pentax cameras are no better than random chance at auto focus when nothing could be further from the truth.
</RANT> Sorry for the rant but may I humbly suggest that complaints about AF specify whether they are talking about TRACKING or AUTO FOCUS. They are not the same, and it is mildly irritating to constantly be barraged by these complaints when I cannot get a miss-focused image even if I try.