Review on Weather-Sealed Black Pentax K-70 DSLR Camera Body Only by Candra ᠌

Name: Weather-Sealed Black Pentax K-70 DSLR Camera Body Only
Item: Weather-Sealed Black Pentax K-70 DSLR Camera Body Only
Rating: 5

September 13, 2022

Everything in the purchase suits, a very necessary product.

Users of many previous Pentax models complain about AF, here it works pretty well for everyday shooting, but still for active reporting and sports shooting, it’s probably worth looking towards competitors, though much more expensive.
The choice of lenses is very large in various price categories, including the secondary market. Even Pentax's 18-55 kit is quite decent (unlike some competitors), and you can pick up good glasses in all ranges of focal lengths costing up to 15-20 thousand. Third-party manufacturers also make optics for Pentax. In addition, the K-70 is good friends with old manual glasses, some Soviet lenses were even made with a Pentax mount.
Thus, the K-70 is unlikely to force owners of other systems to switch to Pentax, but as the first DSLR it is probably the best choice, which is head and shoulders above amateur DSLRs of the same price category (up to 50 thousand) of competitors and is much cheaper than top crops, many of which also lose the K-70.

Pros

1) In the previous review, it was already written about the low noise level. This is really one of the main advantages of the model, it allows you to shoot with fast shutter speeds under worse conditions and use darker optics. 2) Stabilizer, allows you to shoot handheld up to about 1/8 sec. (at 50mm), no need to buy expensive optics with stabilization 3) Screwdriver, you can use old and / or inexpensive AF lenses 4) When using manual optics, there is confirmation of focus in JVI, and illumination of the flu zone and an increase in the central area in Live View (LV) 5) Focusing on the center point is very accurate even in difficult conditions 6) The housing for the SLR is very compact, while there are a sufficient number of buttons and knobs, which allows you to conveniently control the camera. 7) The grip is very comfortable for me (hands are quite large), in winter you can easily take pictures even with "inflated" gloves

Cons

1) There are only 11 AF points, and they are located very strangely - there are five of them horizontally, and it turns out that the 1st and 5th are very close to the edges, and the 2nd and 4th are to the center. 2) In the focus point selection mode, it is difficult to change ISO 3) There is a significant delay in LOS between the shutter release and the shutter release. 4) Tracking AF in LV works very peculiarly 5) Video is weaker than competitors 6) No top screen 7) The back screen is not touch 8) Terrible Wi-Fi Smartphone App