Originally posted by gm4life Yup, exactly. As a KP owner this is all true does a great job with Limiteds but DA * stuff too.
What's in the K-3 that's not in the KP, battery and buffer. The 6 shot buffer int eh K-1 is completely inadequate. There are times when the 23 shot buffer is inadequate. Just for that reason, the K-P will never be a K-3 replacement for some of us. Unfortunately the K-P is pricey, meaning the K-3 successor is likely to be even more so, if in fact Pentax hasn't abandoned the effort to produce a high FPS camera that isn't slowed down when tracking is turned on.
Having been able to sell K-1 and 645z cameras without spending the big bucks to improve the AF, it's a question as to whether Pentax has just abandoned improving AF altogether. The supplementary processor was introduced for low light performance, no supplementary processors to help with AF have been introduced however. For those of us who's life is made easier by a high frame rate and accurate tracking from time to time, things are looking pretty bleak, at least in terms of expecting there to be a camera coming out I'd actually buy.
I'm just expecting my K-3 to carry me into the future based on what I'm seeing.