I don't post often now, but this caught my attention. In my inbox on the 1st of the month came a notification of the pending arrival of the new K3 from my friendly camera dealer. Given it was the 1st of April, I dismissed it as a joke, but no, there really was a new K3!
I looked at a few initial pre-production firmware reviews (one or two of which didn't even have the camera) which I'm sure many of you have seen. Lots of criticism to be found about it, the first easily dismissed about it not being a mirrorless design. If you want a mirrorless camera there are plenty out there. The next was the lack of a tilt screen. They are useful, but for me I rarely use it other than when on a tripod for landscape images, and in such cases the K1 will be on top of it. The K3 I use for recording street scenes and the new touch screen looks more useful to me. It's heavy too they say, but I don't like a light camera. Over here it's £1899 and that appears to be the killer blow. At this price who is it for at full frame DSLR money? Well, I'd imagine it's for folk with a collection of K & M42 lenses who like the features of the new camera! I'm certainly one of them and I put my order in some days ago and look forward to it arriving on release. As an aside, I bought my KP before release which was generally slammed in reviews. A quite wonderful camera that's turned out to be. On the occasions where a smaller camera is needed in situations where I might not have taken a camera at all, I've taken photos in low light of friends on great nights out that I could share (remember them, in olden times we went out and saw people close up) which wouldn't win any prizes but recorded memories. That surely is what photography is about. Malcolm -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
