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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
04-13-2016, 05:40 AM
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I was just wondering,the other day "when are they going to use the even numbers? And will they start at 2 and go up?"
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
04-13-2016, 05:05 AM
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There are a lot of issues that could cost them customers, slow burst mode, no really low ISO mode, lack of D750 or Canon pro quality AF and tracking. It's being marketed as a field camera. I'm thinking that's a clue right there, as to how important flash in their thinking. Really they've produced a great field camera at a great price. I'm sure lots of folks who shoot other places besides fields who want a whole host of other features.
They have what they want from other manufacturers.
Now us guys who labour out in the fields have what we want. Don't begrudge us our happy moment.
I'm sure there are lots of Canon and Nikon guys asking "why can't Canon or Nikon make a camera like this?" Given market share, Pentax will pick up more guys who are into the "field camera concept" and don't care about flash at all, than they'll lose, from people who want better flash. So, I disagree. Being the best value for money, and the best feature set for landscape and nature, and it's tank like Pentax construction is what they needed to do. Adding cost with better flash would cost them more than it would save them. After all, if these guys who really need better flash, had any money, they'd already have a system dedicated to that use.
The fact that they don't means they think they'd like better flash, not that they'd actually pay for it,
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
04-01-2016, 06:45 AM
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I'm sure they are all weeping over there at Pentax headquarters. :D
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
03-31-2016, 12:18 PM
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Let me help you out with that. :D
OK, so the guy was probably a troll... but hey.... there is one.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
03-31-2016, 07:27 AM
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I actually think Pentax cameras are discontinued long before it is announced. The K-3 production line was probably taken for the K-1 months ago (or K3II) . What has changed now that makes them say it's discontinued is that they no longer have stock at headquarters to ship to distributers. There was always going to be exactly the number of K-3s there is today. All they are saying is "we are running out." They are so cheap, i don't understand why if someone wants what they have to offer, they wouldn't just buy one. All this moaning and complaining about no flash etc. just doesn't make sense to me.
But for those who think the run of any camera is unlimited, they are all on a cycle. It's very likely how many cameras will be produced of a certain model is determined before the production run starts.If you like the feature set of a camera buy it. But don't expect that any add on feature will be there from one model to the next. Consumer products just don't work that way.
It is an interesting phenomena, how many people come on the forum to discus their purchasing preferences."I want this essential feature, or that essential feature." What are we supposed to do with that? So you want it, go buy it...why should I know about that?
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
03-31-2016, 07:01 AM
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I still have the AF200T and Soligar 14s slave, that I owned when I got my Program Plus way back when in the 90s. I do use the built in flash from time to time. But a GPS would be better for me.
I find it interesting that people now have to have stuff that used to be optional. I guess for those of us for whom flash was always an ad on, its sounds kind of silly. For those of us who grew up with on board flash, they expect it. But for folks who lived in the 80's and 90's, only the cheaper cameras had on board flash. So there's bit of a great divide here.
The advantages of a separate flash are pretty much endless. Separate batteries, so your camera battery isn't drained by the flash, bounce flash, much more powerful flash. My AF 200T recycles much faster than my on board flash does. Even my $19 Soligar 14s does, and it's powered by 2 double As. And I can carry the Soligar in a pocket of my camera bag or s shirt pocket. There is a power adjustment on the back of the flash. I see no need to adjust it in camera. But maybe that's because that's what I'm used to.
From my perspective, I find it odd that some one would pass on a camera that's $1000 cheaper than it's closest real competition, over an issue that most of us learned to deal with years ago, and have dealt with stress free most of our lives.
So, ya, I agree with the salesman. If you want to consider yourself to be a pro, get used to dealing with off camera flash, for about a thousand reasons.
Go ahead, laugh at me, while I'm laughing at you. We can laugh together, just at different things. :D
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