Originally posted by house Its not the K-3 that is the $2k five year old benchmark being discussed its the d500.
The K-3 III looks like a great camera but its explicitly (5 principles) not adding value by chasing specs. This confounds the specheads. No surprise.
Is it a benchmark now, or something to be "blasted out of the water"?
A benchmark, fine, but that would explain the K-3iii's price. The amount of improvements included in the K-3iii is staggering.
To "blast out of the water" the current top performing DSLR, that's an intentionally impossible target. Particularly since you don't even care to define it
I can imagine, if the image quality would be much better - that won't count, but card write speeds absolutely do. And so on.