Originally posted by farhagh I'm sure there are lots who prefer this, but I find the fill-in and external flash control more useful to give up on. It's only me, and I'm not such a serious or good photographer who really needs to upgrade his K-5. This just gave me another reason not to
Now, you have a choice. The image quality will be a little better on the K3 II, there will be the GPS unit, sensor shift foveon color thingy, a little better image quality, and better tracking auto focus -- or, for four hundred dollars cheaper you can have current K3 with a pop flash and decent (but not cutting edge) APS-C image quality.
I can honestly say that I haven't used the pop flash in the last three years (well, I have, but the photos were too lousy to keep) and so losing it doesn't matter. On the other hand, I use bounced flash with an external unit a lot and find that it gives very nice results.