Originally posted by biz-engineer According to CIPA, the K-3II has a higher battery life rating than the K-3, power management likely been redesigned on the K-3II; So it might be that the K-3II has a design weakness that the K-3 does not have. You can order a K-3 instead of a K-3II.
Interesting how this develops. I wonder if any further insight is given by Ricoh.
The K3II has my particular interest because of the GPS and I rarely use the on board flash. So no reason for me to go for the K3, unless the K3II proves to be a totally messed up trial run for the upcoming FF (which I don't think it will, I have faith in Pentax that's why I ordered). However, there are lessons to be learned here. Ricoh development (and it's QC people in the factory in the Philippines) better pay serious attention; if the introduction of FF gets messed up like this.....it will seriously hurt Pentax and -worst case scenario- could give Ricoh some sort of justification to end this line of product.
But that's a different discussion..