Originally posted by schnur07 I'm not sure if it would be fast enough for basketball but I suppose worth trying to see how it goes.
It depends on how much post-processing you are willing to do. The levitating basketball was shot at ISO 6400, first without noise reduction, then using Topaz Denoise.
The image above was at 1/160 second, the only reason the ball is not blurred is because I was panning. Here is another photo taken at 1/160 (ISO was 5000 this time):
Here is a shot taken at 1/250 and ISO 6400:
The last two photos have no noise reduction applied, I also have the last photo with noise reduction and adjusted white balance, but I wanted to show you a comparison with the K-30 you are used to. The accelerator chip in the KP should give you the equivalent of a full stop stop of noise reduction without you having to do anything, in other words ISO 6400 photos should look like ISO 3200 photos from lesser cameras. I took these photos 5 years ago and I was experimenting with a lens I had owned for 9 months, so my 10% "keeper" rate can surely be improved on, using the same lens on a KP. My son graduated from high school in 2011, I had even worse results with ISO 400 film and a manual focus Super Program; back then a Canon 5D and an f2.8 70-200mm was the only way to way to get high quality results and that combo would cost a lot more than $675.