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Forum: Pentax K-3 III
01-11-2022, 12:39 PM
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Honestly, the fixed screen did put me off of the K-3 iii initially. I'd tested the K-1 back when it was released and loved the versatility it brought even though I wasn't using it most of the time.
That said, I tested the K-3 iii against my father's Z6, which does have a tilt screen. And guess what. The overall feel and usability of the K-3 iii was much more decisive to me than the floppy screen, which again I didn't really use that much. Also, the screen on the Pentax really DOES have a very wide angle of view, which does make it very useful - and which is actually better when viewing at a horizontal angle than the Z6's floppy screen, which only flips out vertically, not sideways.
Granted, on the Z6 you can almost go 90° vertically thanks to the flippiness. The K-3 iii's screen doesn't give you that.
Still - doesn't bother me half as much as I thought it would so I ended up going with the K-3 iii after all.
That said - I don't quite understand why the screen is non-tilt. It's such a standard feature these days and they could have saved themselves a lot of unnecessary discussions if they had gone with one.
Off topic, but maybe worth adding: Image quality between the FF Z6 and the APS-C K-3 iii (both with effectively the same MPs) was effectively identical in my view (my father actually picked out the Pentax's images as higher quality in his view when I sent him a couple of anonymised sample shots of straight-from camera JPGs)
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
05-15-2013, 11:44 AM
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Hello everybody - as the forum software asks so nicely, I'll go and introduce myself shortly.
I'm originally from Germany but have been living in Ireland for over five years at this point; I've been a frequent lurker here for a good while - checking back on any Pentax news, advice, and general photography tips. The forums were always a great help and resource (and one of the few places that see very little of the silly animosities/trolling you get elsewhere).
What made me take the plunge to finally join was probably - again - the forum software, which thanks to the wonders of cookies noticed I visit frequently and thus asked me if I didn't want to join. The frequency of my visits increased a bit recently as I got myself a K-5 ii and also did some research here on geo-tagging as well as photo organising/RAW development software.
Pentax was the first camera I ever had - and even the first I remember ever using. At the time, it was my father's ME Super, which he later gifted to me, along with a standard Pentax and a Vivitar tele lens (the latter of which I've sold off in the meantime). I still own that ME Super, although I have to admit I haven't used it in a good while now. I went digital with the K200D in 2009. Over the years, I got a Sigma DC 18-50mm 1:2.8 EX Macro (although the "Macro" is really a bit of a joke with that lens, as it turned out), a Sigma DC 50-150mm 1:2.8 II APO HSM, and a Pentax-DA 1:2.8 35mm Macro Limited. I just had to kick out PaintShop Pro XI because it was just getting too old and didn't really do RAW development, and after lengthy deliberations (and installing various free trial versions) went for ACDSee Pro 6 as my management, development and retouching tool.
I'll leave it at that for now :-)
Later!
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