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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
10-09-2013, 04:12 AM
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Being a smaller manufacturer than Nikon or Canon, Pentax has to spread development costs over a lesser number of sales. The greater the number of bodies you can put a new feature into (and thereby, sales) the less impact development costs have on price. The K-3 already has quite a substantial number of new developments in it, and I would think the managers would have drawn a line on the list of revised features. From what I gather, the greatest issue for the K-3 was never flash synchronisation speed: it was always the AF system, which the K-3 seems to be addressing in a substantial manner. You'll probably have to wait for the next development to address this one.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
10-09-2013, 03:17 AM
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The answer probably lies in the price point that was set for the K-3. If it is the case that the higher sync speed would require a redesigned shutter, we'd likely have been paying more for the new camera.
Of course, some of us are old enough to remember coping with the 1/60 of the horizontal FP shutters. The present 1/180 sync speed is a whole 1.5 stops faster than that, but we were dealing with ISO 25 film back then. Maybe another way of dealing with it is to introduce a range of leaf shutter lenses.
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