1. High ISO is at least 1 stop better than the K-3. Probably more. 2. Movie mode is vastly improved with the return of sensor based stabilization. It also has much less noise in movie mode. Also the bitrate has been increased finally. I've seen samples and it was vastly better than the K-3 ever was. 3. Battery life is about 30% less than the K-3. Not a problem if you use a grip really or can manage to change a battery every 4-500 shots. I know that's a huge burden, but I think most people can manage.
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 2:53 PM, P. J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > The ergonomics were obviously worse than the K-7/5/3 just looking at it. > The shutter button placement looks awkward. The front dial placement looks > awkward. > > The body has been made shorter without actually changing the real footprint > of the camera. I love the ascetic of the more pointed pentaprism on older > film cameras, but the Super Programesque, LX, (with hot shoe), like > pentaprism of the K-7/5/3 looks better on the thicker body required by > stuffing all the electronics into a camera. > > The small grip, which is all you ever see in promotional shots, reminds me > of the grip on the *ist-D which didn't seem really uncomfortable until I > held a Ds. > > I never even thought of the rear dial placement, but you know with a *ist-D > grip your thumb would fall on the secondary rear dial, which is where the > *ist-D had it's dial, and all of the grips have that *ist-D look. > > I still have a *ist-D, it's got enough problems, after I beat on it for a > while, that it wasn't worth selling, so it sits on a shelf all forlorn, and > it really is uncomfortable compared to holding a K-5. > > I expected the high ISO to be not much better than the K-3 because physics, > and I expected movie mode to be not any better because Pentax. > > I expected battery life to be an issue. > > The things I erected to be better were. But there isn't much that's > actually better. > > It's like the bad old days of the *ist-D[x] endless variations on a theme, > with no real improvement. In fact if you owned a Ds/L all you needed was a > firmware upgrade and you got 90% or more of the improvements that the Ds/L > II, (just a bigger rear screen really), version gave you and the only real > difference between a Ds and a DL was the pentamirror in the latter. Except > now we have an advanced camera, that "looks" like it might be a replacement > for the K-3 in the Pentax product line but isn't. > > Maybe they did a rush job to try and take advantage of the success of the > K-1 by putting most of a K-70 into a K-1 like body with a few improvements. > It wouldn't be the first time. > > > > On 3/10/2017 1:49 PM, Darren Addy wrote: >> >> Not sure what your biases are, but I think these guys do pretty good >> reviews. >> I knew nothing about the K-P before seeing this. Very odd to hear that >> ergonomics is such a problem with this camera, when that has been one >> of Pentax's strong suits, in the past. Good news for any future Pentax >> cameras are the improved stabilization system and AF. >> >> It is going to be a long while before I upgrade from my K-3 II, even >> when an option is available. It is more than enough camera for my >> purposes on terra firma. >> >> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 12:34 PM, P. J. Alling >> <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Which reinforces all my biases so I'm posting a link to it here. >>> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjSNou9cQq0 >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> 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 > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
