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Forum: Pentax K-01
11-11-2017, 12:30 PM
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The K-01 was a great camera when it came out (or at least after the first firmware update) and is still quite good. The image quality is excellent and holds up well at higher ISO. Not the camera of choice for sports or other fast action but perfectly fine for most everything else. The focusing system is the main weakness but with short and bright lenses it is perfectly usable, and actually quite OK with HSM lenses. No OVF of course so some might miss that. The LCD is however not bad and even usable in fairly bright sunlight. The controls are simple (at least compared to the K-1 that I mainly use now) but pretty similar to what you would get in an enry level DSLR and have never been a problem for me. The pancake kit lens is fine optically and certainly small and light but I don't find the focal length very useful. It would have made more sense for Pentax to offer something like the DA 21 with it or the collapsible 18-50 lens that they brought out later (although reviews of that lens are not great).
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