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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 12-07-2017, 10:33 AM  
Worth waiting for the K-3II Successor?
Posted By normhead
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What are you shooting? I can't find any images.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 12-07-2017, 09:01 AM  
Worth waiting for the K-3II Successor?
Posted By normhead
Replies: 75
Views: 11,458
My K-3 and K-1 keep me quite busy. There's no "waiting" around my house. When the new APS_c flagship comes out I'll give it a look but there's no guarantee I'll buy. What I have doesn't let me down very often.

K-3 images from the last week....
2017-12-06-AP-noon-beaver-1 by Norm Head, on Flickr

2017-12-06-AP-feeder-birds-3 by Norm Head, on Flickr

2017-12-01-Peterborough_Zoo-7 by Norm Head, on Flickr

2017-11-23-AP-afternoon-visit-8 by Norm Head, on Flickr

AF problem? What AF problem? Any "problems i had with these and most of my images are not related to Pentax AF.

I simply don't understand why people wait if they really need better AF. It's simple matter of buying camera for the AF you need. The odds of Pentax matching what Canon and Nikon have to offer is so remote as to non-existent. And there are good AF bodies for relatively cheap these days, OK, not cheap compared to a K-70, but good AF doesn't comer cheap, from any manufacturer.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 10-19-2017, 01:15 PM  
Worth waiting for the K-3II Successor?
Posted By normhead
Replies: 75
Views: 11,458
What we now is a record of whether or not Precision can repair it.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 10-19-2017, 12:00 PM  
Worth waiting for the K-3II Successor?
Posted By normhead
Replies: 75
Views: 11,458
Click on the Edit Message button.

I wonder if this is something specific to your copy that could be repaired.

It certainly sounds correctable.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 10-19-2017, 11:48 AM  
Worth waiting for the K-3II Successor?
Posted By normhead
Replies: 75
Views: 11,458
That would be a huge problem with my bird images.... and our landscapes. A very high percentage of our image, there is no opportunity for retakes.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 10-19-2017, 09:22 AM  
Worth waiting for the K-3II Successor?
Posted By normhead
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Unfortunately, the 645z jumping in ahead of schedule and pushing the FF back a year, may have also pushed the K-3 upgrade aback a year. All we can do is wait and see.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 10-19-2017, 07:24 AM  
Worth waiting for the K-3II Successor?
Posted By normhead
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Views: 11,458
I preordered my K-3 and my first image is Nov. 2014. Not quite 3 years ago.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 10-19-2017, 06:46 AM  
Worth waiting for the K-3II Successor?
Posted By normhead
Replies: 75
Views: 11,458
Since 2010 a new body design has come out every 3 years. The there is the "II" upgrade which uses the a few tweaks to the old body.... but the K-3 successes isn't due out until next year, based on previous releases.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 10-18-2017, 05:43 PM  
Worth waiting for the K-3II Successor?
Posted By normhead
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And when it didn't work right? How does a camera not work right?
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 10-18-2017, 10:29 AM  
Worth waiting for the K-3II Successor?
Posted By normhead
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In other words you want K-1 high ISO performance in an APS-c camera. You would think it would be possible, if you cut a K-1 sensor in half you should have the same DR and high ISO performance. Who knows, stranger things have happened.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 10-08-2017, 07:26 AM  
Worth waiting for the K-3II Successor?
Posted By normhead
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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.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 10-07-2017, 08:48 AM  
Worth waiting for the K-3II Successor?
Posted By normhead
Replies: 75
Views: 11,458
To me, the K-70 is the current "smart" choice.

The next APS-c flagship should address tracking AF, a faster FPS with tracking turned on, and have the K-70 and K-Ps low light performance.
There are no indications Pentax is working on any of those things, although the low light performance is a given, having already been released on the K-70 and K-P.

If they improved those things, I might consider the new camera. But I'm getting what i want with a K-3, so that's not a certainty. My current practice K-1 for low light, K-3 for burst rate, works just fine.
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