> On Feb 24, 2023, at 2:02 PM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2/24/2023 3:32 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
>> I was looking something up and saw a new K-3 iii on Amazon for $1580. That's
>> about $100 more than KEH had been asking for a used one. Since my remaining
>> K-3 started acting wonky and doing the mirror flop thing a few of the times
>> I tried to photograph a hawk outside my office yesterday, it was really easy
>> to rationalize getting a replacement APS body.
>>
> Well, you'd get a couple of weeks of use out of it anyway.....
One of the things going on in my life is that the company I work for is going
to be moving to Riverside (400mi south) in the next month, and I don't yet know
how much time I'll need to spend there. One downside is that I won't be able
to do repairs on my house in Santa Cruz on the weekends. The big upside is that
I'll be able to do something with my weekends other than home repairs, so I
might actually get a chance to play with my cameras.
> I'm sort of expecting Pentax to at least start hinting at a K1III this year,
> but I don't think a replacement will happen until 2024.
That sounds reasonable, and probably more likely than they have the K-1 III
almost ready to go, and will only have a couple of months between making the
K-3 iii obsolete as a flagship and having a new flagship available.
> If your K3 craps out, what are you gonna do? Do you have a back up plan? If
> it's switch over to a K1 for the DA lenses, is 16mp enough?
To be honest, I never really felt resolution limited on the 6MP K100, or the 12
or 16 MP (or whatever they were) K20, K-x, K-5 ...
> The lower end camera they just let out is apparently quite nice, though a
> rehash of the K70 IIANM. It's less than US$850.00, so if your K3 meets it's
> demise, you have that option until a new full frame appears.
There are some really good deals on the Amazon Pentax store:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/9740A73D-0D60-462C-A658-BC2295B4E731
For example K-70 for $520
I also expect that there will soon be more K-3 iii available new for under
$1600 new. Mapcamera in Japan has several in the $1100-1200 range.
In short, I'll burn that bridge when I come to it.
>
> bill
> --
> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List
> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow
> the directions.
>
--
Larry Colen
[email protected]. sent from Mirkwood
--
%(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List
To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow
the directions.
