Malcolm, nice to hear from you. I think it is a good decision to order
the K-3 3 for your street photography.
It is claimed that the low light performance is better than of the K-1(II).
Looks like an excellent camera, though I will never buy this model as
I've realized that I'm using live view with the tilted screen of the K-1
in too many situations.
My collection of DA lenses has been extended now with a second hand
55-300 WR, so I will stick also to my K-5 for the time being.
Henk
Op 2021-04-21 om 11:32 schreef [email protected]:
I don't post often now, but this caught my attention.
In my inbox on the 1st of the month came a notification of the pending arrival
of the new K3 from my friendly camera dealer. Given it was the 1st of April, I
dismissed it as a joke, but no, there really was a new K3!
I looked at a few initial pre-production firmware reviews (one or two of which
didn't even have the camera) which I'm sure many of you have seen. Lots of
criticism to be found about it, the first easily dismissed about it not being a
mirrorless design. If you want a mirrorless camera there are plenty out there.
The next was the lack of a tilt screen. They are useful, but for me I rarely
use it other than when on a tripod for landscape images, and in such cases the
K1 will be on top of it. The K3 I use for recording street scenes and the new
touch screen looks more useful to me. It's heavy too they say, but I don't like
a light camera.
Over here it's £1899 and that appears to be the killer blow. At this price who is
it for at full frame DSLR money? Well, I'd imagine it's for folk with a collection
of K & M42 lenses who like the features of the new camera!
I'm certainly one of them and I put my order in some days ago and look forward
to it arriving on release.
As an aside, I bought my KP before release which was generally slammed in
reviews. A quite wonderful camera that's turned out to be. On the occasions
where a smaller camera is needed in situations where I might not have taken a
camera at all, I've taken photos in low light of friends on great nights out
that I could share (remember them, in olden times we went out and saw people
close up) which wouldn't win any prizes but recorded memories. That surely is
what photography is about.
Malcolm
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