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

Hi Dominique,

good to read from you! Did you not get one of the first 645D in Switzerland? Are you still using that?

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...

Thanks, that makes me feel less clumsy
I normally have four or five batteries with me, but on a camping holiday when power can be an issue, it's still not ideal and of course not everyone has the luxury of so many spares.

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.

Agreed. As a landscape photographer that is annoying enough, but as an events photographer, it must be worse.

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.

Oh wow, not the thing you want to experience at a gig.

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.

Whom did you contact? Like, not the person necessarily, but which Pentax office?

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.

I had a similar situation when I changed from the DS to the Sony A850. It allowed me to delete while the buffer was clearing, but it was not a good idea to do that. Sony users at the time asked me why I'd even delete in the field and maybe I shouldn't make so many mistakes. hahaha, helpful bunch they are

I have read this being referred to as "being able to walk and chew gum at the same time"

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.

Right, even with my Sony experience, I still want to be able to sort it out. Like I realise I forgot to focus correctly or set the wrong aperture or ISO - deleting the dud in the field will make my life in Lightroom easier when I need to investigate 4 seemingly identical photos to see where I made a mistake. Not a \*huge\* issue for me, but for your type of photography, I can see the impact even more.

Cheers

Jens