Originally posted by pTom I don't think many people are "selfish" here ,
To add more video buttons doesn't mean to downgrade any photo features.
"Aggressive" or "Open mind & heart" is depended on the way we comment, the way we behave , the idea we contribute .
As I said before , I love my K-3 because of excellent photo features even though Ricoh/Pentax haven't satisfied my hopes on some new video features. There is the evidence that Ricoh/Pentax has been serious about video when the hardware has a slider for video and another record button. Therefore , it will pave the way for video software to utilize them. The video software has manual way as many video people wanted. Now the video software just needs to reach some new goals. I started to use K-3 for video scenes since I never used K-5 for video purpose. It's a positive for Ricoh/Pentax.
I don't talk much about photo here because this forum has too many high skill photographers here. In this field I prefer to listen to you guys and to buy lens based on most you guys have reviewed or recommended.
I still lay a bet on Ricoh/Pentax for "hybrid" camera .
The reason Pentax gave the camera the switch was to make sites like dpreview stop giving the camera minus points for a lack there-of. If they had actually cared about video they would have listened to what customers want. They would have given us the OPTION for mechanical SR, besides electronic SR. With a warning that it could introduce audible noise and may be bad for battery life. They would have given us (if possible) the option of higher bitrates. The only thing where they listened was audio. That was a big improvement. Sadly that was IMHO easily outweighted by the areas where it was made worse than what came before.
The K-3 will work great in very controlled environments, ideally utilizing a tripod, and with little movement/detail in the scene.
Btw., I have watched much more footage from my K-5... Some have the movement back after a pan, some don't. No clue why that is... it seems to me that it is the less controlled, faster and jerkier pans that won't have the problem. Clearly if you are shooting with a tripod you'll do better without SR, and if you are shooting without tripod... Even if it bounces back, that can be fixed, or you cut first, and it will be an improvement over no SR regardless. I don't have any wobble in my footage. At least none that would be noticeable without concentrating on finding it. Rolling shutter is still there if you move the camera too fast/the subject moves too fast. So it is not the sensor that makes the camera so wobble resistant. It is the mechanical SR.