I don't recommend to use AUTO NOISE REDUCTION. It's always off in my pics, because it does not bring great results. Or use custom ISO NOISE RED. - I get info on this somewhere, and I customize to use Noise Reduction only in minimal mount, and after iso 3200.
Also, I love to shoot with JPG L ** and not *** because I get smaller file size, and quality is almost same, or same for my eyes. I'm not pixel peeper, so I love this mode.
About colors -
Pentax K3 can really messed up colors, in not so beatifull way. I recomend Natural mode, its far more usable, then AUTO, because AUTO can result with different colors in same situatios. You point your camera into fridge, or window, and same situation, will have different colors.
Not one proffesional photographer use WB AUTO in shooting because of this. Later is very difficult to get all shoots look even. It's just for non conventional occasional shoots.
Also every color mode you can customize, by your wishes
For instance, when you set Natural, or Portrait, you can assign different sharpness, warmness, saturation, and else... I notice my pics are little soft, so I've got sharpness increased a little.
For sharpness -
well, I suffered too from this illness when K3 came, into my hands, but this was crap kit lens, and also lack of knowledge how to use such big resolution to get excellent sharpness.
You must shoot with minimum 1/60 sec and turn on Image shake reduction . Even then, at those speed, you will notice, even slight moving can get you to the blur side.
Camera must be very still, your hands must not touch focus or zoom.
Besides that, if you use OVF, you must press focus button at least twice ! You cannot trust the first focus confirmation sound ! ,
Focus area in mirror mode has very weak signal, and your focus will missed desirable area ! Specially in lower depth of fields, with apertures lower then 6.7 .
Push shooter button at least twice, and you will notice, lens will focus again, and better on second or third push. This would happen almost always.
I like to avoid this missfocusing whenever I can, so I like to put my lens on f-8 . It's still give me pretty decent isolated subject, and I'm not afraid of bllury photos. If you're in hurry, don't even bother with lower depths, because it will get you in missfocused trouble.
Hope this helps
Last edited by panonski; 03-29-2017 at 07:22 AM.