Originally posted by normhead You have absolutely no credibility telling anyone they shouldn't be happy with their K-3, or shouldn't "accept it" based on your personal biases and those of a few others. How can we put this politely.
I disagree with your opinion. I find your attempts to define Pentax users as sharing your opinion " If
we just keep accepting the K-3," provocative and bordering on silly. I just "keep accepting" the K-3 because I go out and shoot with it almost everyday, and I love working with it.
There is no "we", there's you and a few others. Your opinions in no way reflect mine. If you want to write to Pentax and say "improve the video" I want to write and say "don't bother." Not only do you not speak for me, I'm against what you propose.. GO buy a camera that does what you want and quit hating the K-3. It's making you look like an idiot. I drive a Toyota RAv4 but I don't go around complaining about the lack of all wheel drive on other vehicles. Buy what you need. Quit bad mouthing product that isn't what you need. If you bought something that wasn't what you needed, the product didn't change after you bought it, that's on you. From my perspective, all those two wheel drive vehicles out there are fine with me. I'm not writing letters to GM and Ford saying "put all wheel drive on all your vehicles." Why would you be trying to get Pentax to put better video on a K-3 successor? Just buy what you need. Quit your bitchin.
Where on earth did I say that someone shouldn't be happy with his K-3? If Pentax were to remove a feature you love, even if few people use it, for a reason that makes no sense whatsoever, and it really wouldn't have made any difference to them leaving it in, would you be happy with that? But if you're happy with your K-3, great! I don't want to take that away from anyone, and I don't think I said that anywhere. Implementing what I, and some others, would want, would in NO way make it a worse camera for YOU. Heck, I'd want them to remove that stupid video/stills switch. It should select the focus point, as on the K-3. I think it was a mistake. IMHO it'd be enough to enable an option where you can select video with the Fx button, and to perhaps have the function on the mode dial. In no way do I want to turn the camera into a video camera, or that Pentax creates a video camera. I do not want that.
You must have misread what I meant with we. And I'm sorry about having worded that in a misunderstandable way. I'm talking about the ones who do care about video.
There is no camera that does what I want. The closest thing to that is the K-5, and I have it, and I'm rather happy with it. But one day it will break, and it would be nice if Pentax continues to make appealing cameras.
What Pentax has done is essentially create a SUV with AWD, but when it senses that you go offroad (most owners don't, so they won't complain) it will deactivate the AWD and turn it into a FWD car. For the reason that the fuel consumption is higher when AWD is activated. Instead they offer an offroad FWD mode that uses some fancy but useless tech to "improve" offroad capabilities.
The K-3 could be good for video. Better than most competitors, especially at the time of launch. It's just details in the firmware that keep it from being that. Which, btw., bringing it back to this thread, could be part of why Pentax is so rare. 2 friends were looking for a new camera, and willing to switch brands (both having Nikon). I recommended Pentax. The K-3 would have fitted their requirements for the most part, except for video. Instead they ended up with Panasonic and Sony. Especially the Sony one could have bought Pentax... the K-5 was interesting to him, but outdated. The K-3 wasn't interesting.
The K-30 and K-50 are offered in a major consumer electronics chain in Spain, however I don't think I have seen any in the wild. All Canikony. The only place I have seen a reasonable amount of Pentax in the wild was Malaysia, and even there it was behind Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic, ...