P. J. Alling wrote: Which reinforces all my biases so I'm posting a link to it here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjSNou9cQq0 _______________________________________________________ I knew this camera was onto a loser straight away because I like it. I have changed mine to the largest grip and it still isn't great. My feeling is that they should ditch the small grip and upsize all of them, so you get a M, L & XL grip. My all black model does not have construction gap issues. Yes, I agree with nearly all of his review (I think this guy does good reviews in general) but he seemed to expect miracles from the high ISO which is bound to be grainy. My feeling is that most here would not use most of these images. Here's the thing; tonight I needed to take pictures of a local bus service after dark of the last day of operation with operator 'x', before operator 'y' takes over tomorrow with different vehicles. The KP took them at a high but usable ISO at 1/100th of a second. The K3 I had with me wanted 2 seconds - all of the pictures I had to take quickly by hand and without a tripod. I think Pentax called it a camera for snapshots; at high ISO you're not going to be putting A3 prints on your wall. For someone like me who needs a record of things taken at night, which until now I haven't been able to get, it's game changer. No doubt ten years from now major improvements will have been made. There are many short comings with this camera, and I would have much preferred it a K3 size (that should be a minimum standard size). It is a niche market camera. You wouldn't be looking at this as a replacement for a K5 for example - it's not an upgrade, it's a sideways step into a different area. Malcolm -- 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.
