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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-28-2019, 09:34 PM
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Those are good ideas. I wonder whether the K-x architecture (the basic internal electronic design - motherboard and the like) would allow the grip to be that sophisticated.
I don’t understand the issue with buffers on Pentax cameras, but I shoot single, or short (3 click) bursts and Small jpeg on the KP. It’s for grandchildren and backyard birds. I rarely fill the buffer. I release backbutton AF, shoot, refocus, release, shoot. I don’t use tracking AF. Maybe I just don’t try to do things the KP won’t do well.
My son shoots Sports/Action for commercial web display. I believe 30,000 releases a year. A 7D with very good lenses does everything he needs.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-28-2019, 08:57 PM
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It is not and was never billed as a professional camera, nor as the K-3 line successor. Just accept that the K-7/K-5/K-3 professional APSc platform architecture was discontinued. It ended. There is no longer a professional APSc Pentax Camera.
There might be in the future, but the KP isn’t it, and was never intended to be.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-28-2019, 08:53 PM
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In my opinion the KP is a camera unto itself, not a near-professional body. It fits a small niche for Pentax enthusiasts. It was designed to produce excellent image files in a package small enough to be comparable to an APSc MILC (with lens mounted) - but it has all the Pentax brand differentiators: excellent ergonomics, durable construction, nice OVF, IBIS, PixelShift, Astrotracer and the Accelerator. Pentax threw in interchangeable grips and a nice tilt screen.
I try not to dwell on what it doesn’t have.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-28-2019, 10:23 AM
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At the moment K-1 is the flagship (645 really should be). KP is a high-end enthusiast camera. Given it has the Accelerator Chip and the best AF alogorithms I’m not sure one can say KP is worse than K-3 series. It just lacks the traditional DSLR form and external controls found on the K-3.
There might be some APSc evolution coming next month that will populate across the entire set of platforms though.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-12-2016, 04:12 PM
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-11-2016, 01:14 PM
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They'll need to sell out the existing inventory of DA 560 before there will be an update. One poster here who seems to be informed suggests at the present rate of sale it will be years . . . .
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
06-06-2016, 05:55 PM
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Twisty Vidcam screen: NO
Moonlander: YES
I cannot believe how good it is.
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