Originally posted by redpit All signs and Pentax tradition in releasing new flagships show that you have to put away money
I think it will definitely be a major upgrade.
If I am very honest, my short lived adventure with the Pentax KP was part of my reason for leaving Pentax. It was not just the build and the ergonomics, but there was something in the KP's rendering that I simply did not like for birding. Even now, I very much like to revisit the K3 images, but never revisit the KP images with the DA560. The KP i.m.o. was centered around noise reduction and contrast and a heavy handed color rendering, all adding up to perhaps stellar IQ for cityscapes or (artistic) landscapes, but I could not warm to its rendering of my favorite subjects: birds in their habitat.
People may feel this is neither here nor there, or feel offended, but my feeling was that the KP had too much of the Ricoh dna. I did like the K1 b.t.w., so perhaps I should have tried the K1, but the 1.4TC was not FF.
Anyway, I really hope that the new Pentax APS-C flagship revives the brilliant, transparent and delicate K3 detail rendering for wildlife, adds better high iso, but not at the cost of a finely tuned realistic rendering, adds reliable and consistent auto focus, and I am back in
Chris