Good to hear, now I have to work out how to jettison a pair of K5's and grips and come up with the money to lbuy a pair of K3's :(
On 1 November 2013 13:18, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > After owning the thing for all of 6 hours, I can honestly say this is one > hell of a nice camera. > Lets get the obvious out of the way: > The AF is greatly improved over previous Pentax cameras. > > This is likely going to be pretty random, and probably fairly long, so bear > with me if you want > > Ricoh is very much in the game here. The box says Ricoh in at least six > places on all six sides of the box, which is one more that it says Pentax if > I read it right. On the camera itself, it says Ricoh on the back and on the > bottom. > This differs from the K5 box which only says Hoya in fine print on the > bottom. > Ricoh seems to want the world to know, in no uncertain terms that this is > their deal. > > On to the camera. It is chunky, this is no featherweight, but it feels good. > It is definitely bigger and heavier than the K5, though not by much. It > feels like a K5 that is about 1/2 size larger. > Typical Pentax interface, which is to say very good. They've added a couple > of goodies, one of which satisfies one of the things that has annoyed me > since the K7, which is the 4 way buttons. When the K7 came out, they had > broken the interface, and then fixed it on the first firmware. On the K5, > they just left it broken. > The K3 has a second button that, among other things, toggles the four way > from AF select to the functions settings. > I spent some time pushing the OK button expecting a beep before I found the > cure. > Nicely done Pentax. > For those of us that shoot video, we now seem to have AV, TV and manual as > well as full automatic exposure, along with a toggle to go from video to > still with the flick of a well, it flicks... > A toggle, I suppose. > We now have AF tracking across all 25 or whatever it is AF points. It > remains to be seen if it works, but hey, they tried. That's gotta be good > for something. > Everything seems to be customizable in one way or another. There are three > user settings that allow custom settings to be locked in. As I expected, you > can't lock in manual exposure with a set aperture and shutter speed, so > don't put away the electrical tape yet. > Note to Pentax: is it really too much trouble to let me disable the dials > completely so that my camera setting don't get boinked by accident while I'm > shooting? > The metering mode switch is gone (yay!!!!). It is now a lever that locks the > mode dial or not. With the dial unlocked, it turns freely, with it locked, > the middle button must be pushed while the dial is turned. I like the way > they have done it. The metering mode switch always screwed me up. > The metering mode is now a push a button and turn a dial affair. It's fine. > A 32gb card has a capacity of 598 DNG raw files. If you want to know how > many PEFs that is, buy a K-3. > You can put in both the photographer's name and the copyright holder's name > into whatever file the camera uses for this sort of stuff. > The screen seems better than the one that came with my K5. I suspect I will > leave it in and not bother with a Katz Eye screen on this camera. > The AF mode button leads to madness. I suppose I should read that part of > the manual. > I have scheduled a stdio shoot for Nov. 11th, so I am sure I will have a > better idea of how the thing works after that. > Overall, my impression is pretty positive so far. The camera seems, on the > surface, to be more of an evolution than a revolution from previous Pentax > cameras. To me, this is a good thing. The camera is, while different, > familiar. > Sort of like sleeping with your girlfriends twin sister. > > bill > > > > > -- > 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. -- 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 [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.
