Hi Stan, Looking at various reports I'm pretty sure that the K3 has some way to go before the firmware is as robust as the K5, I've seen multiple reports of the shutter actuation going crazy (not happened to me yet), total system lock-ups when using a battery in the grip and body (I've experienced this first hand) and with your report and my issue with the memory card problem it is difficult to have great trust in the camera. I just bought a large 95MB/s card and I'll see how the camera behaves with that for the moment but I have to keep using it because the poor auto-focus system in the K5 just loses me so many images.
Cheers, Rob On 5 March 2014 07:29, Stan Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> wrote: > Not a biggie since i haven't lost anything yet, but this was a bit > disturbing... > > So I carry two K-3's, A and B. A is used more often, it hangs from a wrist > strap. B stays in the backpack or sometimes around my neck if I am switching > back and forth between wide and long for example. I occasionally chimp, > primarily to check the RGB histograms to make sure I haven't inadvertently > changed a setting and put myself out of range. Today on my A camera I was > noticing a strange color cast on the LCD. After a few more shots I became > convinced that something was wonky, switched to the B camera and went on. > > I just downloaded the shots from camera A via Lightroom. As long as Lightroom > was displaying thumbnails based on the in-camera jpg rendering, the color > balance was way off still. But once LR rendered previews, built from the RAW > data, everything looks just fine. So, the jpg portion of my K-# processor has > a random variable color-balance problem, but the basic DNG capture is just > fine. To be clear, there is not a consistent color balance bias toward too > much green in the jpg's for example. Rather, it is off in a random way for > each shot. > > Since I only shoot DNG and don't capture jpeg's in parallel, the good news > here far outweighs the bad. But still unsettling... > > stan > > > -- > 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. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
