System changes

After I spent a few years now with Nikon road, first with the D50, then the D80 and finally with the D200, I wanted to treat myself to a camera with better noise performance in the field ISO400-1600.
My choice was first on the D7000, not least due to the low price. Although I had read several times over the AF problems, but thought I'd give it a try, shall not be so bad. But far from it, the D7000 was to produce with any of my lenses in the documents sharp images. AF fine adjustment brought little success, the difference in sharpness between the viewfinder AF and AF-LifeView was blatantly.
But since I did not want to send to the Nikon Service Camera and I personally am of the opinion, based on my test photos and read reports that it is this is a design flaw that somewhat corrected, but can not be solved completely, I have Camera returned to Amazon and was initially at a loss.
A Plastikbomber small viewfinder from the lower price segment of Nikon I did not want and the D7100 is too expensive and how to read, indeed not entirely without problems.
I am then-5 K II ended, since none of the competitor has to offer a camera with the features and quality of housing in the marked out by me, pricing framework ultimately at Pentax.

Now to the camera itself. At first I had a queasy feeling in my stomach. Had I really done the right thing, a system change? Pentax has a relatively small market share and the K-5 II is not so widespread, camera problems to speak in provided around not as fast as with Nikon or Canon. But to make it short, everything went well. I am enthusiastic about the K-5 II.
The images are the way I like it, without having to change the basic settings of the camera from the colors and the sharpness ago. The focus is sitting there, where he should, regardless of whether I'm shooting through the viewfinder or in the LifeView. The camera touches his class, is well made and makes a high impression. The image quality to ISO1600 met my expectation. Also, the video mode delivers good results, but you can select only the iris and has no other manual controls except exposure compensation memory. Iso and shutter speed are selected automatically, that result is very balanced.

Is there anything that I do not like so well? Yes there is.
I miss a freely configurable key that I can, for example, place the spot metering. Furthermore, the latches on the switch to select the AF area, the Metering and AF mode are not as well defined as in the Nikon and the viewfinder may be slightly lighter. But that's about it.

So I have K-5 II found in the Pentax what I've been looking into the Nikon D7000, a good compromise between image quality, housing quality and price.