[JASMAZ77]

the next thing you will talk about is the metric system





must we all conform with the majority ?

if so, we must drop Pentax

[ this is meant as " fun" so I hope it is taken in that fashion ]

I wont go into the metric system that will confuse everyone.

[aslyfox]

I wont go into the metric system that will confuse everyone.

yeah some people can't even agree on the proper way on how to spell the unit:

Meter vs. metre
For the unit of measurement equaling approximately 1.094 yards, meter is the American spelling, and metre is preferred everywhere else.

Meter vs. metre – Correct Spelling – Grammarist

[cometguy]

Looks like this video is supposed to mimic a "hands on" demonstration if you would have been able to attend CP+ in person.


2:55 - Dual slot. Departure from K-1 and K-3 where the SD card slot 2 is now on the lens side. Slot 1 is the one that is UHS-II compatible.
4:15 - Comparison of the K-3 and larger K-3 III viewfinder
5:45 - Shooting at High burst speed. Auto caption says 30 images RAW+ (32 RAW) before buffer fills, but the video shows getting more (about 36-39), maybe because of compression or buffer clearing during shooting. Takes about 14 seconds after stopping to clear buffer.

7:30 - Showing the touch screen functionality and new menu layout
11:20 - New aperture recording for older lenses
15:00 - View through viewfinder to show shorter blackout time vs K-3

Thanks for this information; very useful. I'm curious to hear how the buffer handles for long time exposures (astrophotography), as opposed to just taking a burst of photos rapidly.

[RobA_Oz]

Often computer programmers use year month day {2 digits for each of last two}, because that sorts correctly.
The only way to avoid confusing us is to use letters for the month.

The people in real life are not computer programmers and this is a camera enthusiasts site. The correct way is dd/mm/yyyy

Is this the real life?

My days of computer programmimg are well behind me (real men code in FORTRAN ) but I use yyyy/mm/dd for organising my photo files (or anything else that needs cataloguing by date), as any other way is just confusing. So, there is an overlap between real life and programming.

PS: there is another thread on this topic.

[Not a Number]

As fun as all this date format discussion is, let's stay on topic please.

[thibs]

yeah some people can't even agree on the proper way on how to spell the unit:



Meter vs. metre – Correct Spelling – Grammarist

Well, as the American way of writing 'night' ? no thanks

Note that American cup is no English cup which...' ok I'll stop there.
Not confusing indeed.

[sprint113]

Thanks for this information; very useful. I'm curious to hear how the buffer handles for long time exposures (astrophotography), as opposed to just taking a burst of photos rapidly.

I don't think long exposures heavily utilize the buffer. It's only after the imaging sensor is finished collecting photons that that information is processed and then sent to the buffer to be written to the card. So taking a 5min exposure is basically the same as a 1/125s exposure from a data flow perspective; and if you collect more light than the sensor can handle, then it just maxes out and clips. So if you're doing interval shooting for astro, the rate is usually slow enough that the time it takes to take a shot is more than enough time to write the previous image to SD card, meaning you'd never run into buffer issues, just limited by the battery and SD card storage.

[ffking]

That focusing of the 20-40 looks pretty snappy for an old lens.

[thibs]

Old lens ?

[Mistral75]

Old lens ?

Almost seven and a half years since its announcement. An eternity.

More seriously, revamped, rehoused and rebranded lenses set aside, only eight K-mount lenses have been announced since then.

[Tony Growden]

FWIW I just watched a photographer video (Yoshiaki Kobayashi) about the K3iii which is the most recent video to be added on YouTube. He spends a lot of time talking about the viewfinder and how you get a better feeling for the scene than with an EVF. At one point he shows a collection of lenses which I assumed were the ones he tested with, but later (22:13) shows photos which I believe were taken with the DA560 (go-roku-ju miri, so he is literally saying it as five-sixty millimitres, not five hundred and sixty). I don't know if he's based in Hokkaido but that's where the photos appear to be taken, judging by the eagles and cranes (I think it's the Shiretoko peninsula). However, he has used a variety of lenses out to the fisheye zoom. At 23:17 he talks about the crop with the DFA 150-450. I'll have to watch this in more detail, because he has taken bird photos, and that's one thing I will be doing. I notice that the photo preview button has been moved to the right side of the viewfinder to be operated by the right thumb. That's probably a more convenient arrangement.



https://youtu.be/-WF92VTayjQ?t=1333

Hi Rob; So stupid question, but what did he say about using the D-FA150-450 on the K3III. Does it work ok. Will all Full Frame lenses be compatable? Thats all I have now

[thibs]

Of course they all will be compatible.

[Mikesul]

Of course the 150-450 will work on the K-3iii. It was a dream on the K-3ii and KP. The K-3iii will probably be even better with the lens.

[sprint113]

Of course the 150-450 will work on the K-3iii. It was a dream on the K-3ii and KP. The K-3iii will probably be even better with the lens.

While the 150-450 was designed with a FF image circle, it came out a year before the K-1, so it's initial life was in a purely APS-C ecosystem.

[ffking]

Old lens ?

In terms of the AF drive speed and expectations of cameras when it was designed