K-1, 14 months, 20000 photos (gets a bit nitpicky)

Hi Jens

JensR wrote:

Charger

Green light while charging, off when finished? I wish manufacturers would stop doing this.

Yes, I know what you mean! FInding out in the field that the spare battery in the bag is empty, not because I forgot to charge it, but because it had a wrong contact with the charger during the night...

K-1:

For RAW shooters, three out of the four buttons on the 4-way controller are basically unnecessary. Maybe better to move the single/cont/int/... shooting mode to the CH/CL mode dial settings, then the four way controller can be used for AF point selection exclusively for RAW shooters and you can give JPEG shooters something else on the four-way-up button.

I am not happy with that two-mode four-way controller. I frequently happen to change shooting mode or whatever parameter when I just want to move the AF points around.

if you try to delete an image after a burst of sorts (bracketing, cont), the camera takes very very long to complete the actions and is basically unresponsive in that time

Thank you Jens! It won't help you, but having a second user complaining about the problem already helps somewhat. On my very first photo session with the K-1 back in April 2016, I noticed the camera somehow locks up when in heavy use for 10-20 seconds. I quickly found out the reason for the lockup and reported it to Ricoh. It took them a while to acknowledge the  problem but a year later, when I asked about the status, I was told there will be no fix as long as I am the only one complaining.

Previous Pentax cameras did not allow the user to delete photos as long as data in the buffer was not processed. The user could not delete photos just taken, but then, the camera remained usable, whenever the shutter was pressed, the photo was taken. For some reasons, the engineers at Ricoh prefer to lock the camera for 10-20 seconds.

As an event photographer frequently working on tight schedules, I have got used with Nikon to sort the photos right on the spot. Once the habit is taken, it is difficult to avoid it. I tried to use the K-1 in favor of the D810 for events photography, but I locked up the camera way too often.

The bug was too much in my way and I ended up selling the K-1.