I spent SOOOOO much time trawling through online reviews, and the advice about cameras that I received here, and eBay, and camera dealers, and, and, and.... in order to find a simple DSLR that wouldn't cost a fortune. I love my K1000 and only broke down for this purchase because film developing just isn't an option where I live (and no, I haven't found a suitable mail-order option; Canada Post parcel rates are just stupid, and some US processors people here have recommended want $25 return shipping).
I ended up with a Kx from a camera dealer in Alberta, via eBay. It came with an 18-55 DAL lens. Everything works, but... ... it's not sharp. I've tinkered with the focus selection points, tried my other lenses... everything has to be sharpened in Photoshop, and while they look OK on a small computer screen, blown up to "actual pixels" they are just not sharp. (I am shooting JPEGs with it.) My little Optio RS1500, which I fear is slowly starting to wear out, takes sharper pictures than the Kx! But I wanted more control over DoF & exposure than it offers.
I bought it for closeup hobby photography and want tack-sharp details in doll faces. After seeing the results of today's shoot which are once again just not sharp, I'm beyond frustrated with the thing.
It's too late to return it now; I suspect someone traded it in for the same reason...
I read a rather complicated tutorial on "debug mode" which lost me at the part about creating a "MODSET.492" file... I've also tried to determine if something before or behind the spot-focus point IS in focus, but can't really tell. From Google I gather this may be a 'thing' with the Kx?
So here I am at 2 a.m. making the post I've been going to make pretty much from the first month I got it... I really don't want to have to go around again trying to find another model because I researched it to death last time, and I am not going to spend hundreds of dollars on a camera that is just going to frustrate me.
Argh!!!
...advice.... .....?
Last edited by Alliecat; 10-01-2016 at 10:27 PM.