I'd say the answer to your question: K-5 -> K-5IIs versus K-5 -> K-3 depends entirely on what shortcoming your K5 has that is prompting you to upgrade at all. What do you shoot while travelling: landscape? architecture? people? street? What do you do with the resulting shots: print large? Book? Post to the net?
The K-3 will give you the most noticeable improvements, but if you don't need the added pixels or fine detail, then it's likely not worth the extra expenditure. The K-3 has some UI improvements over the K-5 family that I appreciate, but again, worth it? Overall I think the K-3 is the best most refined camera that Pentax has produced and I like it a great deal. I also find that the files from it need much less noise reduction than any prior camera I've used. In fact I've taken to simply not doing any noise reduction at all any more except specific cases because the noise is so film-grain-like I find it enhances the images now. As for taxing your computer, well I use a seven year-old iMac with 6 GB RAM and a flash drive. I do all my post in Lightroom and Photoshop CS5 and I don't yet find the computer's speed to be frustratingly limiting. On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Ralph Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been a Pentax user for over 15 years and have accumulated a good > number of lenses and accessories. Normally I an not perplexed about which > new Pentax digital body to buy, until now. > > My main use of Pentax gear is for travel photography - small and lightweight > lenses, reasonable sized bodies and accessories. Currently I am using a three > three year old K5 and I would like to buy either a new K5iis body or a new > K3. I do not need the camera for sports or kids and grandkids, just for > travel. > So, looking at dynamic range, high ISO challenges, MP, and somewhat the price > -- what body do you recommend and why? > > Ralph Turner > > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
