Originally posted by kadajawi If Pentax fixes 2 things... Higher bitrates (perhaps at 4:2:2 and 4:4:4? Those are supported by h264...) and give us back mechanical SR, then I will consider the camera. Until then though...
Not that I have any hope of this ever happening. The K-01 came out... People complained about SR and bitrates being worse than before. Then came the K-30. Same thing. Then the K-50. Again. And finally the K-3, and thet still haven't learned. After years of customers wanting back mechanical SR... They still won't do it. And changing that in firmware, after the camera was already released... When they didn't bother to fix prior to the release... When it would have been easier... Not going to happen.
I think I will have to switch to Olympus one day... Cause they get it right, and have an even better SR system to begin with.
That's true.
...and there will be no famous Vitaly to hack the K-3 for better bitrates, etc ...
(I read that Panasonic has even employed Vitaly to directly work with him on
their new Lumixes GH)
Watch out for the new GH4 coming - with extraordinary rumours heard now.
Panasonic really knows how to serve the market well and up to the limit !
But Pentax is not aware of what they could manage with interested users - if there
are any left at all in terms of video.
RICOH hasn't helped Pentax to learn (if they had tried to) The K-3 is not good
enough to compete with strong Video-DSLRs like the other 3 or 5 brands.
The videocodec is poor and looses a lot quality in editing and uploads etc. The
K-5 is underdevelopped in manual acess - not a real choice for videographers.
Pentax tried in this ... and in that direction - but they have no vision they can build
on ... and continue to work on ... and even get better and better each time. All they
can is just to do another new try from the start ...
They did a K-7 and K-5 = dead end
They did a K-01 = dead end.
They did a K-30 and 50 = dead end
Now they did a K-3 = yawn .... Good try but a low bitrate, soft image, bad SR.
So whosoever watched what Pentax did in 4 years now to the last video-freaks
among us, can't easily even want to hold on to any more future dreams ... and
will change his mind and move to Panasonic, Sony, Canon, Nikon, Olympus ...
or whatever.
I'd say get an old good Lumix GH2 made in 2010 and you will have a better
camera Pentax can ever do in 2014 - for I lost hope they will ever resurrect.