Originally posted by philbaum
I don't consider the K3 sensor to be a downgrade from the K5. I worried about that myself. But after taking 2 months of shots, i much prefer the K3. I took 9 portraits recently with the K3 and i was impressed with the detail and image quality.
The K7 was a different situation altogether, iMO. Ricoh did a nice job on the K3.
I agree, if you pixel peep, the K-3 can look a bit rougher when there is noise, but if you downsize to the same size, it's better. More resolution makes for cleaner images.
I use the edge focus points all the time... they work just as good as the centre point.
For many images soft light can produce superior results, with no blown highlights... that hawk is a perfect example fotogaffer. If there was a direct single point light source you'd have shadows and blown highlights... sometime I think my best images are in exactly your conditions, 400-800 ISO 1/200-1/300 of a second... you lose some to motion blur etc, but the ones you get are often really good.