After nearly three years without any practice, my first trailer-camp required backing up between two thick trees and up a 20-degree slope.. and oh yes it was pitch dark, not counting the many nice relatives who illuminated our site and called out warnings or encouragement as I struggled to regain old habits. We hung out in the bug-free woods for three days. I brought two cameras to play with: the K-5 and a fine red Lumix GF2. While its primary purpose is its AF video more than raw-image stills, it wandered the camps with me nearly as often as the K-5. In fact the K-5 sulked a bit - not exactly that, but it showed signs of a K-5 battery trait that is fairly well documented. The mirror mechanism fired twice for several shots when using a freshly-charged battery, and as the battery is used the issue 'always' resolves - and my camera ran true to form. The GF2 had just its 14-42 kit (28-84 equivalent) while the K-5 used 15 (fisheye), 28 and 50mm (macro) lenses (22, 42 and 75mm equivalent). All had their uses, and for the family photo I went old-school with the 28mm Rikenon. This old manual lens is a sharp one, and I captured the bunch of us very well. Sadly my wife was ill through all of Saturday, so the trip had rather strong ups and downs. But despite the health problems we did it!
