List Price: $349.95
Sale Price: $329.95
Today's Bonus: 6% Off
Yes I like it, and not only because of its color. It is handy.
I still keep my K20d and use K-01 as a second camera mostly. But when in the mood, I put a couple of DA Limited lenses in my pocket and go for a walk with K-01 only.
I wear glasses, and using optical viewfinder always was a bit clumsy for me. Also, I live in cold climate, and viefinder becomes covered with a hoar wery soon. So I don't miss the thing, pure LV without mirror lag is perfectly OK for me.
Image quality is great. While I am a bit sceptical about bells&whistles, I used in-camera HDR several times and it works well. Camera also has a rich media processing abilities, not only posh image filters but even a basic video editor (which I also used once).
With new firmware focusing speed for Tamrons 18-200 and 70-300 improved and is compatible with Pentax DSLRs now.
Autofocus, however, is not always accurate and may miss the target. This probably occurs when the background has more contrast. What is sad that it may happen even when contarst background object is out of AF frame. This happens not very often, but each miss is annoying.
Also, the rate of continuous shooting is low, which limits wild life genre for ex.
Back to advatages, focus peaking and zooming the focusing area are extremely useful. Manual focusing is really easy now. Frankly speaking, only with K-01 I was able to focus my FA77 at 1.8 at the desired point ALWAYS. With phase AF its only a caprice of SAFOX, but even with Katz-eye split screen in manual mode its difficult for me: I just cannot see enough details in optical VF. With zoomed focusing area it becomes an easy task.
Resume: very good spare camera with a bit too slow continuous shooting. At this price -no reasons to skip.
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