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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-27-2018, 12:51 PM
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Guess I got lucky, picked up a "used" K-5 IIs body for just over $350 on Ebay. It came with all the parts listed in the manual's packing list and was in a box with matching serial number to the camera. Shutter count was 820 when I sent a photo to the Pentax site. The seller claimed it was most likely a store demo, can believe that. Battery was about dead, do not think it was ever re-charged; charger cable still twist-tied up.. This body replaces a K-50 that developed the dreaded aperture block failure. Looking forward to years of happy photos.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
12-01-2014, 11:58 AM
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Kind of an old thread, but I just bought one of the Ebay diagonal split focusing screens as I use manual focus a lot. The screen was not terribly useful with higher f number lenses, such as the 55-300 zoom. With a 2X teleconverter, I had to position my eye very carefully to see any focus indication. Luckily the focus sensing red squares showed up the same time as I thought I had best focus. The split section and microprism ended up being a distraction for me, so I put the original screen back in to get rid of the viewfinder clutter. Luckily higher f numbers are not all that focus sensitive. I had similar split/microprism screens on my Olympus OM-1 and found them very useful, but I did use faster lenses with that camera.
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