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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
10-29-2017, 05:20 AM
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It wouldn't be an issue if the entire K-5 family tree suffered the same hung-out-to-dry syndrome. But for the K-50 to be given a KAF4 update and the flagship camera from which it is derived to miss out is peculiar to say the least. It wouldn't bother me at all if I found out that something had been introduced on the K-50 that made it possible, which wasn't on the 5/5-ii/5-iis. But until that issue is clarified - and as far as I know it has not been - us K-5 owners will continue to feel more than just a little bit annoyed and perplexed.
KAF4 is clearly the future. I just hadn't anticipated both my APS-C bodies to be relegated to the distant past so soon.
(And as for legacy support on film bodies, the Super Program will drive a DA lens in Tv and P modes. All you have left to contend with are the focus and the image-circle issues.)
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
10-28-2017, 10:52 PM
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If not the K5 then why the K50 is the general flavour of the complaint, and even if I were not a K5 owner they would have my sympathy.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
10-28-2017, 11:22 AM
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Ability to use the lens! Neither of my other DSLRs is KAF4 compatible.
Right now I don't really need it - I have a 17mm film-era lens that is more than wide enough for my wildest dreams - but it would be nice to have in mind as a possibility if my wife ever says "Splurge on something for yourself" (which occasionally she does, bless her).
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It still requires modification, but I accept that the mod is easy to do.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
10-28-2017, 08:20 AM
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The thing which makes or breaks this lens for many of us is: will it work on the K-5 family? I can live without screwdrive on new glass - that ship has not only sailed but now lies torpedoed at the bottom of the Marianas Trench - but lack of KAF4 capability on what is still a very good body continues to vex many of us.
The money is in the glass, people; that's what keeps a lot of us coming back. Please do something about it.
The question of whether it will cover the full frame is moot - I don't know of any DA zoom that does, and I expect this one to be no different. But we may get extra usable space beyond the APS-C or square crop that would make shooting in full a worthwhile thing, especially for those of us who post-process everything.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
10-27-2017, 03:54 AM
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I do hope this is deliberate BS. If so, it would be nice if you put a /sarc tag or a smilie of some sort, like this :p , at the end.
Otherwise you will be joining my ignore list pretty swiftly.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
10-27-2017, 03:44 AM
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True, but there are days I want to be reminded of exactly WHY I BoriscletoTM'd somebody, and seeing the most egregious snippets of their drivel quoted used to make me comfortable in the knowledge that my decisions had been correct.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
10-25-2017, 06:17 AM
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Yeah, me too. Come on, Pentax; give us that K-5 series firmware fix we need so badly. It's ridiculous that the downscale K-50 has it and this doesn't.
The good thing about it is that there's no huge overlap with the bottom end of the 18-whatever lenses. I'm guessing the difference between 11mm and 12mm is worth having?
Wonder what the coverage on the K-1 is going to be like...
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