Originally posted by Larrymc Here is a suggestion to the Moderators........Please, Please, Please closed this worthless thread. It has gotten totally tiresome seeing all the ways people can complain about a problem that they were perfectly aware of BEFORE they made their purchase decision. This thread has gotten laughable.
I've mentioned it before but apparently I should bring it up again - I already had a set of Pentax lenses and a K5. (Before that it was a K10D, so I'm not at all new to the Pentax world). After a bit of a photography hobby hiatus, I bought the K3-3 to try and rekindle my joy for it. At the time I bought it, I was more interested primarily in better AF and hadn't considered the pros/cons that an articulated screen would have. As I started shooting more and getting more exposure (pun intended) with various photography genres via YouTube, etc... it became apparent that the flippy screen was a factor I didn't consider fully.
I don't know who the target buyer for the K3-3 is and what cameras they already have, but in the middle of the mirrorless growth explosion, I'm willing to bet Pentax was intending for it to be not a camera to bring new people to Pentax, but rather to keep Pentaxians from switching systems. It's rare that I meet a fellow Pentaxian in the wild in my town. The cameras and lenses are nowhere to be found in local stores - any Pentax purchase is online only here. The only person I know with a Pentax (K-3) gave it to his daughter and bought a Canon 5D Mark 4 with a 100-400 lens because the Pentax AF was terrible for his birding.
I'd like to see Pentax be successful - this means they need to come a little closer to the competitors with features that expand the platform's ability to be a creative tool, not just a camera.