Is it necessary to upgrade Pentax KM to KR or K5?

The KR is the second generation upgrade of KM, and the K5 is the flagship of Pentax half-width of the same generation as KR.

KR is not a big improvement for KM, and K5 is a big improvement.

If your shooting needs haven't changed right now, then you don't need to upgrade. I don't think it's clear whether there's a need for an upgrade, so I don't think there's a substantial expansion of what you're actually used for.

To sum up, it is not recommended that you upgrade, if you have money, you can buy a good lens, such as Pentax's 16-50 bull head (parallel goods are only more than 5,000).

As an aside, I think personal photography is actually very important, and I know some people who have taken very good shots, won good awards, and even have some reputations, and even people who are using machines like the D70.

km is the color of CCD, KR and K5 are all COMS.

It's all half-frame, and there is no difference in picture quality, the difference is mainly in performance. Such as focusing speed, high sensitivity, etc.

There is also K5The control is more convenient than KM and KR, and many things do not need to be entered into the menu, and there are buttons that can be adjusted directly.

SLR cn two are more famous, Pentax has a small group of users in China, and maintenance and after-sales are hard to die Canon 60D is very good, with high configuration, clear imaging, and high cost performance, it is a new mid-level nirvana product of Canon. In addition, the compact and lightweight nature of the 60D plastic body also reduces the burden on users when carrying the camera when going out.

Depending on your needs, if it is only for general family needs, it is not necessary

Upstairs, Leica's cameras have nowhere to be repaired in China! According to you, Leica's cameras are rubbish? I've never really seen a Pentax camera break, but the NC camera is broken.

In fact, K5 and 7K are really similar, and I personally think the only gap is the user base. Like me, unless Pentax shows teased or CN sends big benefits, how can I enter the P family.

Body: K5 is good, three-proof body, alloy, small (of course, this is considered a disadvantage in the eyes of some people......）

Anti-shake:K5Good,P home is the whole system of body anti-shake,N home is lens anti-shake,Of course,It doesn't matter if you are equipped with an anti-shake head。

Picture quality: Tie, the same CMOS, but the imaging style is different (I always mixed in the P altar back then, and I went to the N altar by chance, and my eyes suddenly lit up). Pentax is very characteristic of color expression, while Nikon style is more documentary and sharp.

Shutter speed: 7K, the same mid-range machine, the shutter speed is the same, but with a camera, it has to talk about focusing speed, which is relatively not as fast as CN.

If you want to shoot, you will have to deal with the group of shots. Pentax lenses are less, but from 18 to 300, from prime to zoom, from 300 yuan to thousands of yuan. Pentax lenses are expensive?

The most expensive thing on the market is the star 535 with more than 6,000 dollars, and I hope he will be a little more expensive. Pentax's shortcomings in the lens group are, first, that there is no cheap large aperture (only a manual head of the last century), and second, there is no bull head of more than 1w yuan (some are all old goods of the last century, and there is no market).

Go to Mowgli to see more samples, mainly look at Pentax's style (mainly look at color) and D7000 samples (ignore other models first), and see which one you like. After that, if you like 7k, you can buy it directly, and if you like p, you ......Do your homework again and look at the lens group, if you can accept it, it's not too late to buy it.

K5Positioned as Pentax's flagship machine,It's very cost-effective,It's true,But there's a problem with the lens,At present, Pentax has fewer lenses (more Canon and Nikon),And most of the good lenses are more expensive, which involves a lens communication problem,If the surrounding friends are using C,N's things, then you can usually exchange lenses to play。

Also, K-5 Some time ago, there were stained doors and reflectors jumping out of the door, it is recommended that you go to the forum to take a look, compare the output of each camera, and consider it comprehensively.

You're right about the two. The core sensor is supported by Sony. (The stain door that appears on both machines is because of the technical support provided by Sony at the same time,Not only K5 upstairs) Actually, you don't have to worry about this,There are inevitably individual differences in the same batch,It should be said that there is no big difference in imaging quality。

I don't know how to compare who is good and who is bad, this is just a little complaint and a little saliva surrounded by major brands. Ignore it.

Same picture quality. But Pentax is smaller, more portable, the size is only Nikon D5100 Canon 500D is generally large, the disadvantage of SLR is that it is large in size and large in mass. So I'm leaning towards k5 at this point.

Moreover, K5's three defenses are in place. Generally, if you are in a light rain, you can shoot it directly with 18-55wr, and you don't have to worry about getting into the water. K5 body SR image stabilization, all lenses are installed to achieve image stabilization.

Therefore, Pentax does not have the term lens stabilization. And the lens without stabilization is much cheaper. If you want to talk about the shortcomings, Pentax also has them, such as not having a full camera, and the zoom lens is slightly weaker (Pentax is good at fixed focus).

There are not as many PK ports as the sub-factory lenses. Pentax, for example, should be prepared to play focus. Pentax with fixed focus is king.

The group of shots is no less than that of any one of them. I've used both n and p. There is no problem with Pentax lenses, but very few players have raised the problem that the Pentax SDM ultrasonic lenses (there are only a few such Pentax heads) have failed.

For example, DA17-70 DA16-50 DA 50-135 actually rarely fails, but there are few of them, and they all feel that Pentax's SDM technology is not testable.

In fact, no one dares to guarantee that the ultrasound of the C N family has not failed, and the fans of the forum cn do not have to hold on to Pentax. (After all, C n is the majority, and Pentax users are only in the minority, so this comparison is very expensive), in fact, the rational analysis difference is really not as big as they say. Each family has to gain a foothold, and there is competition, so each has its own strengths.

Each family with different lenses can be a good way to shoot landscapes, portraits, humanities and so on. If someone says that Canon is good for characters, Nikon is good for landscapes, and Pentax is good for humanities, then I believe that this player is still in the initial stage of photography.

The current water (**Hong Kong water) is only more than 700-900 on **, so for your own convenience, don't be greedy for a few small cheap, or buy licensed goods!

On the eve of the Spring Festival, I just bought a Pentax K-5 National Bank (Mercedes Digital ** Store) in Zhongguancun, with a single body of 6900, plus 18-55 and 50-200 two official heads, the full price is 9400 yuan. Plus high-speed card 16G, backpack, Kense UV and other accessories, a total of 9900 yuan. The comprehensive quality of this machine is between Nikon D7000 and Canon 7D, and it belongs to the flagship level of the mid-range SLR!!

The main reasons for my fancy are: first, Pentax is the inventor of the world's first single-lens reflex camera and the first pentaprism; Second, her products are durable and exquisitely structured, achieving the real "three proofs", that is, waterproof, drop-proof and dust-proof; Third, the imaging color is rich, gorgeous, and the German flavor is heavy, which is suitable for shooting landscapes; Thirdly, it has a body image stabilization function, which can reduce the investment cost of the lens; Fourth, anyone in the know knows that Pentax is the only one in the world that produces the so-called "cookie lens", which is extremely small, but the image quality is among the best in the world. Hope it helps.

KX KR is an entry-level machine, KR is only a slight increase in focusing speed compared to KX, and there is only a red dot for focusing, so for this function, it is really not necessary to upgrade from KX to KR.

The K5 belongs to the APC professional body, if you have the K7 in your hand, I don't recommend you to upgrade the K5, because the K5 is only improved compared to the K7, the improvement is only high sensitivity, focusing speed, and the number of consecutive shots.

If you want to play with a professional body, and have requirements for image quality, workmanship, high sensitivity, continuous shooting speed, focus, etc., it is still necessary to change KX to K5.

Forget about changing kr.

In short, there is not much need for KX to upgrade to KR, KX to upgrade K5, there are more attractive, after all, it is worth upgrading from entry to professional flagship.

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