well seriously, it has a much too small sensor with an unacceptable °Cottington rating and terrible blobbing, AF sucks royally, the artificial horizon is almost as bad as the one in the A380, the mount is crippled, weather sealing fails the moment you remove the lens not to mention that lens removal in itself is as awkward as it gets, the mode wheel lock is a huge annoyance, frame buffer is much too small, to use AAs they force you to buy a battery grip, service and sales are superior to none and quality control is non-existent, the box it comes in is soooo 90s, it has neither an aperture simulator nor cormorant mode, snakeskin and gold aren't even available as options, the display is too far on the left to hold the camera without smearing it, and finally Pentax still doesn't make tele to wide zoom primes. In short, it is at least as bad as my K10D and I have no reason to go to my neck in debt to upgrade. Phew... lucky me =) Ecke
2011/1/10 John Mullan <[email protected]>: > Unfortunately, no matter how good a camera is the various pundits, and the > buying public expect new models on an overly frequent basis. Even if the K-5 > were absolutely perfect and could not be improved in any way they would > start to call it outdated. > > jm > > -----Original Message----- From: Steven Desjardins > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 7:15 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: K-3 > > The K5 is so good they may not feel the need to upgrade ;-) > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 4:11 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Looking at Pentax's apparent "schedule" for new models - based on past >> introductions ... >> >> Is is reasonable to expect the "K-3", or whatever they'll decide to call >> the >> K-5's successor, is probably going to show up sometime around Christmas >> 2011? >> >> I'm thinking in terms of advance planning for my next camera's budget >> timetable. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
