My topmost frustrations with Pentax KP:
- KP's autofocus is unsure at best
- point the camera to a well-lit, contrasty spot (where there are contrasty lines in all directions) and autofocus on it three times and get back three different distances
- KP's power management is very bad
- battery levels range from 4/5 to 1/5 to 4/5 wildly
- KP's ergonomics are a mess
- The lenses are broken garbage and can't be finetuned because KP's autofocus is hot garbage
- Granted, everything I bought was second-handed and was probably priced accordingly.
- I have one that is in perfect sync with KP, which paints me a picture how things should be. But the rest...
- KP's service network is a tire fire
- I'm not going to send my camera to goddamn Sweden just to have it looked at
- KP's mandatory noise reduction is the worst
- hot goddamn garbage. I want my whole grain, not this shitty precooked oatmeal.
I hope I've let it all out. This has been waiting to be vented out.
I haven't bought much in 2022 but Pentax is still the worst thing ever.
The worst thing is that the pictures have something to them and they mostly turn out just fine even though you can't expect the IQ to be on Leica level.
My idea is to get a reasonably priced Pentax body, as low as 6 megapixels? And perhaps the lenses will look better in the same way one uses a soft filter in a portrait shooting of an older woman.