I had hopes for the K-3 to make a come back in Video - Pentax had failed for the last 4 years.
They have lost so much time ... or forgot it, spit on it, or simply didn't manage to start competing
with other brands: Canon, Panasonic, Olympus and Sony.
Professional Video is expensive ... so I still hoped I could some day use my four lenses by Pentax
in one of their future Video-DSLRs- That would make it affordable to do small dirty videos for the
web and not for broadcast purposes .... It almost looked as if the K-3 could be a winner ...
Still for photo-needs I got me a K-7 withsome terribly oldfashioned amateurish manual video-controle
apocalypse on board - full of noise and moire all over every contrast shape and border - but I used it
for training purposes to find good ways do make it handy and easy to work with - finding ways to have
easy and minimum-weight: grip sound and light, etc.... to be ready one day for the ultimate Pentax Body
to solve all past problems about technical and management faults ...
The K-7 had a wonderful Video Shake Reduction - that was maybe the only real big thing at all then.
I was able to shoot with a manual 200mm tele freehanded, leaning against the wall or from the windowsill.
Doing documentaries quickly you mostly can't use a tripod - so DSLR-shaking has to be smoothened the
most possible way. The K-7 did that very successfully.
Well ... the K-3 now seems to have a poor and shockingly disgusting SR: (Watch starting at 07:42)
Last edited by TomGarn; 11-06-2013 at 05:10 PM.