Same experience as Chris. I have used my K5 in situations where even with a 1.4
lens wide open, ISO 6400 was required. Of course in such light any AF system
will produce a certain percentage of misses, but it is no higher with the K5
than with any other camera I have owned.
Cheers,
Nathan
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On Sep 25, 2011, at 8:10 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> Peter
>
> That's great; I'm sure that you will enjoy using the E-30; I nearly bought
> one several times, in place of my E-3.
>
> I don't think that you mentioned those reports in your previous posts, but I
> don't find that my K-5 has much of a problem, depending on what sort of low
> light you mean, of course — I don't use mine in near-darkness, but I use it
> up to ISO3200 with no problem. I am so confident of its capabilities that I
> use it on auto-ISO much of the time.
>
> Which is something that I didn't normally use on my E-1 or E-3, when I had
> them. But I switched because my shoulders are giving me problems and the
> lightness and compactness of the K-5 is a bit of a relief.
>
> Chris
>
> On 24 Sep 2011, at 23:02, Peter Klein wrote:
>
>> I had originally planned on dumping the E-system in favor of a Pentax
>> K-5 and a couple of primes. But the main reason for doing this would
>> have been for low-light work. The trouble is, there are too many reports
>> of the K-5 having autofocus problems in low tungsten light--precisely
>> the conditions under which I would want to use it. We'll see if Pentax
>> solves the autofocus issues in the next model.
>
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