Originally posted by HopelessTogger Pentax AF ain't bad, it's just not what it could be.
As jatrax has highlighted, definition of 'good' depends on the AF feature you define as important for your shooting. Macro/landscape/astro/stock/street/travel/wedding/event photographers may have a different definition of 'good' than action/sports/wildlife photographers, for example. Some shooters may value good face detection AF over tracking, others good low-light sensitivity, others may never use anything more than their one centre-spot AF point, ever, even if thay have cameras with 50+ AF points, so fancy AF tracking - even if the camera supported it - would still be irrelevant to them.
However I admit that it would be nice if Pentax did more to simply take this 'AF issue' off the table once and for all, by applying more engineer brainpower to improving every AF related element of their system - lens, body, software. They have been doing so solidly and incrementally from model to model, but the perception that they can't match competitors like Canon/Nikon/Sony remains.
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Originally posted by HopelessTogger I found this interesting and it does provide some hope. It's got facial recognition tracking which is a big plus too.
Only in LiveView, not viewfinder AF. K-3 had that feature and it works well. Even the K-x did that.