On 3/15/2021 8:06 AM, Alan C wrote:
My K5 (ex Mark Cassino) is just great & hasn't given any problems. I'm
sure Rick Womer feels the same. No buttons have fallen off & the AF is
excellent. However, I believe there were some dicey K5's sold at the end
of the Hoya era.
Sure, I hear that a lot from K5 owners who haven't been subjected to the
horrors that the K5 was prone to. It seems people just want to be in
denial and discount the very real problems that the K5 had.
Pretty much all the K5s that Hoya made came with built in problems that
affected a very high percentage of cameras. Ricoh couldn't fix all of
them because there were irreparable design flaws within the camera,
hence the K5II and K5IIs. The IIs had no AA filter.
My K5 didn't have the sensor spots, or the falling off buttons or the
dials that inexplicably stopped working, or the mirror overrun, or the
(I believe related) mirror lock, but it did have AF that was so
unreliable as to render the feature useless. Hoya put out several
firmware updates designed to fix the AF issue, none of which did any
good. Eventually, they just lost interest in trying to fix the bodge
that they had created and decided that ignoring the problems would make
them go away.
The K5 was one of the major reasons I invested heavily into the Fuji X
system. I decided that I needed a camera that worked.
bill
Alan C
On 15-Mar-21 03:53 PM, Bill wrote:
The K5II is what the K5 should have been, had there been adults in the
room. It seems to have solved all of the niggly K5 problems that were
not resolved during production, such as buttons falling off and the AF
being as reliable as a 10 year old Skoda.
It is a big jump from the K10, enjoy it.
bill
On 3/15/2021 1:28 AM, David Mann wrote:
It's been a long time since I bought anything photographic but I
recently found a used K5ii at a reasonable price, and it arrived
today. This is a big upgrade from my K10D.
I went outside and took a couple of photos just after my daughter
went to bed but the light was getting a bit low. No problem, I can
crank up the ISO :)
This was taken with the FA*200mm f/2.8 at 6400ISO, 1/125 at f/5.0
handheld, very much reliant on shake reduction.
http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1096/#peso
I'll check whether it's on the latest firmware soon. To their
credit, Ricoh's website made the manual and firmware very easy to find.
Cheers,
Dave
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