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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
08-23-2013, 08:37 AM
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Since I do a fair amount of social photography, low light is very important to me. I was quite happy with the advancement of the k5 over the k7 and I was even more satisfied with the advancement of the k5iis over the k5 in low light situations. In good light, both the k5 and k5iis are good and if anything, I think the k5iis is a bit more certain to find the focus point quicker.
I have used the k5 and the k5iis side by side using a two camera holster so I could shoot with two focal lengths - there was a wedding I was doing recently and I had the FA31 on the k5 and the FA77 on the k5iis - I was getting much faster and surer hits with the k5iis, I decided pretty early on during the night shots that the FA31 was going to be for posed shots only. I take a lot of candids so I did not want to have the focus assist beam on. My real world experience has shown that the k5iis is a large improvement over the k5 in terms of AF.
Here's a recent camp out with friends where the campfire shots were often taken at iso 12800, f2 at around 1/20th:
Camp Comrade 2013 - a set on Flickr
The k5iis did great and I'm glad I bought it.
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