Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
10-08-2013, 09:11 PM
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This is playing to Pentax's biggest strength. Pentax has a long history of making well-designed cameras with superior performance for their size. Targeting the high-end APS-C market, which Nikon has seemingly disregarded, is precisely the right thing for Ricoh-Pentax to do.
--DragonLord
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
10-08-2013, 08:58 PM
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...and a shallow buffer especially with RAW shooting.
33 JPEG/6 RAW @ 6 fps is not how you compete with other enthusiast-class APS-C cameras. The EOS 70D can shoot 65 JPEG/16 RAW @ 7 fps (though at a slightly lower resolution of 20 megapixels).
In the face of a new camera from a rather unlikely competitor that handles 60 JPEG/23 RAW @ 8.3 fps, this is a sure-fire way to lose customers.
--DragonLord
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
10-08-2013, 08:38 PM
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Well, Hogan sees the K-3 as a serious threat to Nikon because of Nikon's failure to deliver a true high-end APS-C camera or a sufficiently complete APS-C lens selection. The K system has an extensive set of compact, high-performance primes, but Nikon has no direct equivalents to these lenses. He does point out some limitations of the K-3 (1/180s flash sync being the most significant) in a manner that shows his strong bias towards Nikon, but he states clearly that Nikon needs to step up its game or risk having a lot of its users migrating to other systems for a better APS-C solution.
--DragonLord
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