It is posts like this that push me towards a K3 when I keep trying to tell myself that I can be happy with my aging K5 (64,000 shutter actuation's). Well, Christmas is coming, so I'm thinking I will have to ask the EPO (Entertainment Prevention Officer) for a sweet new K3 to put under the tree.
Thanks for the insights, Bill. -- Bruce -- Sent from Sony Tablet S Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 12/11/2013 9:50 AM, Darren Addy wrote: >> >> If you have a K-5, you have a very good camera that you could be >happy >> with for many years, but an upgrade to a K-3 would be significant (in >> everything except dynamic range). > >If, like me, you have a K5 with terminally broken auto focus, the K3 is > >a very significant upgrade. I'm a detail junkie, which is why I >gravitated towards large format when film was king. For me, 24mp is a >very significant significant upgrade. >Going from the K20/K7 with their rather noisy Samsung sensors to the K5 > >was, for me, an epiphany in that I could actually shoot at ISOs that I >had previously only dreamed of. I never liked what came out of those >cameras above ISO 640. At the same time, I rarely find myself needing >anything as high as 6400 ISO, and the K5 isn't really significantly >better until 6400 and above. At 3200, they are practically a wash, >especially if you downsize the K3 image to the same size as the K5. The > >K5 may have an edge at very high ISO, but it really isn't anything big. > >The K3 is excellent, the K5 is marginally more excellent. >As of yet, I haven't touched on how the K3 compares to the K5's >handling. The K5 feels like an old camera compared to the K3. I've said > >since the K5 came out that Hoya had made it as cheaply as they could, >cutting corners wherever they thought they could get away with it, and >the K3, to me anyway, proves me right. The K5 runs like an old nag put >away wet a few times too often compared to the K3. This is huge, as it >tells me that Ricoh is serious about what they are doing with the >Pentax >brand, unlike Hoya, who I felt was trying to wring every last penny >they >could out of it before tossing it to the curb. > >bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
