Last Tuesday I photographed a corporate charity poker game that they put
on every year during Oracle World. Each year they hire Anita Cocktail
as entertainment at the event:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/22619174886/in/album-72157660578347352/
I had been worried about the high ISO performance of the K-3 relative to
the K-5, but it worked out just fine. There were a couple of times that
the autofocus didn't work as quickly as I had hoped it would, and I
missed shots because it couldn't lock focus in time, in the relatively
low light. Metering seems to have improved over previous cameras, and in
many ways I much prefer the UI over that of the K-5.
The Raw/fx button is still broken in that if you accidentally bump it,
it will change your operating mode, but you have to go through the menus
to change it back. Unfortunately, they also took off the astrotracer
functionality of that button, which is how I preferred to have it set.
It is nice that the body is shaped much the same as the K-5, so it feels
familiar in my hands, though that did mean I occasionally had to look at
it to remember which camera I was shooting with.
I sincerely hope that when they release the 24x36 sensor camera this
spring they also release a lower priced APS version of it, so that I
could have two different bodies, with different sized sensors (and
prices) and still easily shift between them. But, they probably will
feel that more money can be made by making people buy multiple full
frame cameras rather than giving them an easy learning curve on the
upgrade path from APS to FF.
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Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est)
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