*bitch mode* Yeah, I'm waiting for my *THIRD* K-3 to come in the mail. The first one had a misaligned sensor/mount, the second one bricked when writing the latest firmware and the third one? WTF knows!?
I also sent my horribly decentered 55-300 back in and my 20-40 is going to Precision for alignment. $2700 and not one item worth keeping except for the flash and grip that came with the K-3. Pentax really needs to get it together IMO. If future purchases are all like this I'm really going to consider Fuji as much as that hurts to say. On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > I offer my experience with the K3 - > > No functional issues at all in 10 months and approx 1400 images - includes > usage in snowy days around zero degrees F and in 4 rainy days of usage. > > I upgraded from the K20D and found the controls somewhat different but am > slowly getting the hang of it. A worthwhile upgrade IMO. > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan van Wijk" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Any probs remaining with K-3? YES > > >> Hi Ralph, >> >> On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:28:39 +0200 Ralf R Radermacher wrote: >>> >>> >>> I'm thinking about buying a K-3 with the 18 - 135 mm lens and must admit >>> I haven't paid much attention to all the K-3 discussions. But I think I >>> remember threads about various probs like the famous mirror >> >> flapping bug. >> >> >> A very late reply, but I have been on a 3 week roadtrip covering part of >> route-66 and the Natchez-trace. >> >> I know you already got yourself a K3 by now, but I do want to share >> my experiences from this roadtrip, where I took well over 3300 images. >> >> This K3 is almost a year old, and has about 8000 exposures sofar. >> >> It has firmware rev 1.11, is being used with the GPS unit attached, using >> fast 32Gb and >> a somewhat slower 64Gb Sandisk memory card. >> >> It was used in P mode mostly, and sometimes TaV. >> Lens used was the DA 18-135 for 95%, and the SIGMA 50-500 OS for the rest. >> >>> Has all this been dealt with, in the meantime, or are there any potential >>> probs one should be aware of? >> >> >> First off, I made some really good images during the trip, in general the >> K3 did not dissapoint, >> there have been several low-light ones to, with ISO turned up to 6400 or >> so. >> >>> Does the K-3 suffer from the usual Pentax probs like sticking trigger >>> button, erratic rear thumbwheel etc. that I've had on practically all of my >>> Pentax DSLRs over the years? >> >> >> I experienced three different kind of problems during the trip, two of >> them >> really annoying due to the frequency of them occuring: >> >> >> 1: >> Quite often, I found one of the settings that can be changed directly with >> the four-way >> controller to be 'off by one' after putting the camera away for a while >> (front seat :) >> and retrieving it. This would be White-balance, drive-mode changes mostly, >> and also the mode of displaying INFO at the rear screen. >> >> This happened at least once a dat (every few hundred exposures) and I >> assume it may >> be caused by unintended activation of the four-way controller. >> >> >> 2: >> On one ocassion, when shooting with the Sigma 50-500 in Continuous Mode, >> I experienced the 'Mirror flapping' after a burst of perhaps 25 shots. >> >> Switching off, and removing the battery briefly, made the camera >> responsive again. >> But it would NOT take anymore pictures at that point, which turned out to >> be caused >> by the memory card being full. (not sure if that caused the mirror >> flapping too). >> >> >> 3: (the most annoying) >> After NOT using the camera for a while, probably letting go into >> power-save mode, >> if quite often happened that the exposure values (in P mode) were >> completely off: >> - aperture completely closed (values f/22 to f/40, depending on focal >> length set) >> - exposure times WAY to long (at least 5 stops over) like half a second >> >> This results in way overexposed images with lots of motion blurr. >> >> This condition does NOT reset itself, I had to use either the green button >> to fix it, >> or turn the camera off/on to reset it. >> >> Of the 3300 images, this has const me at least 30 shots, some of them >> not repeatable, so really lost opportunities. >> >> >> So, while I am quite happy with the quallity of many of the images I got, >> I also was frustrated quite a few times by the K3 ... >> >> Regards, JvW >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com >> Flickr : jvw_pentax > > > > -- > 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.
