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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
02-25-2012, 08:33 AM
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*Misunderstanding*
The K5 can focus, as I pointed out previously (I apologize if my English is not perfect). It is the threefold blinking that puzzles me. So when you do your interior shootings do you experience the blinking of all the three values?
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
02-25-2012, 07:19 AM
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OK , I get it.
Sadly that means that the low-light capabilities of the K5 are rather disappointing. I did expect that a camera with ISO up to 51200 together with a fast lens like 1.4 would be perfect for low-light photography. Perhaps I have to return it.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
02-25-2012, 05:49 AM
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Not at all. Page 108 mentions (as I wrote) the blinking of only one value, not three:
"If the subject is too bright or too dark the aperture value will blink ..."
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
02-25-2012, 03:53 AM
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I have checked it with various other lenses (also with the DA18-55) with the same result.
Maybe I expressed myself unclearly. The shutter is released, thus this is not about AF.
It is the blinking of the three values that is strange to me because
1) It is hard to understand what the "blinking" actually indicates. Is it a "use a tripod" warning or does it mean "now it's too dark to take a shot even with a tripod"?
2) it does not only occur in nighttime situations but also during daytime in certain dark corners indoors (could that be below EV 0?),
3) I encounter it also in M mode, and
4) the phenomenon is nowhere mentioned in the manual, what is mentioned is the blinking of only one of the three values, not all three of them together.
Peter
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
02-24-2012, 01:00 AM
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Hi all,
I have finally acquired a K5, and been playing around with it for a couple of days. A very good camera in most respects, but one thing puzzles me. I thought the K5 should be really good for nighttime shooting due to its high ISO capabilities, but it isn't up to it (for me at least). I have taken it out with the FA 50 1.4. When it's really dark - only a few light sources like windows and street lamps - it refuses to expose, or rather the values for exposure time, aperture and ISO are blinking together irritatingly. The same indoors in rather dark rooms. Pumping up ISO doesn't help either.Is this normal?
I have tried all the different exposure modes, but it's the same all over the board. I have tested my old Leica Digilux 3 under the same conditions, and it behaves rather differently, that is simply making a long time exposure, and not blinking at all.
Maybe it's a bug and I should return it. Or maybe it's me who makes same mistake. Any advice?
TIA
Peter
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
11-28-2010, 08:45 AM
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I have a 20D and a lot of Pentax lenses, but for the last one and a half year I have been using two Leicas, Digilux 2 and D-lux 4. Bot deliver good IQ, and are smaller and more quiet. Now with the new Pentax K-5 out I have been considering to buy one and return to Pentax. Not the least its low-light quality is attractive.
It seems however that some k-5's have QC problems (nothing special for Pentax, happens to Lia too) and - more annoying - serious flash output issues (from what you can read on this and other fora). That is rather unacceptable for a camera that expensive. But who knows if it affects all K-5s. So my question to K-5 owners: are you really satisfied with the the out-of-the-box performance of the camera?
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
03-21-2007, 09:32 AM
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I am happy owner of a K10D now and trying to learn its functions and behaviour. One thing puzzles me: The K10D has a function called "Link AF Point and AE", which is explained as "Exposure value for multi-segment meter set relative to AF Point pos". What does that really mean? And what is the point? I have
fiddled around with this function ON and OFF without being able to see much difference. Maybe there's something wrong with the camera.? I've actually asked Pentax Scandinavia, but even they could not really explain it. Does anyone use/has experience of this function?
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