Originally posted by monochrome Lauren I know you are half serious and half tongue-in-cheek, but I disagree with you on this point. I thnk the K3 is a new camera. New sensor; new processor; new imaging engine; new AF module; new AF sensor; new VF and diopter; new shutter; new bus; new LCD; etc - and a tiny bit of new paint below the rear LCD. About the only thing evolved rather than changed is the basic body design.
It's a K3, not a K5MkIII.
I get it, but I don't get it.
True, the K3 *is* totally different in the final form if you take all the features and think of them alone, but if you take the two cameras, and go over them side by side, you realize that the ports, covers, grip and pretty much every thing else is so close to the K5, that you realize that no one sat at a CAD/CAM terminal and made something totally new.
Ergo, the K3 *is* a K5 Mark III.
The K5II was just an interim camera, and I think it's likely we will never see another "MKII" from Pentax unless something similar happens.
Besides, being a K5 Mark III is not a bad thing.