DPR K3 sample pics a joke!

dcweather · 2013-11-11T18:27:25+0000

Have you seen them. Apart from being the most uninspiring pics I've ever seen the majority aren't even in focus. My grandson takes better pics with his mobile phone. (e.g IMGP100 and IMGP202) We've already seen from our members that it can at least match a K5. This could seriously hurt Ricoh/Pentax though. Do DPreview have some sort of agenda against Pentax? There is no way that any DSLR on the market could take pics this bad unless someone was trying to.

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Smeggypants Smeggypants

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Posted 12/11/2013 - 20:10 Link

robbiec wrote:

Smeggypants wrote:
You're not kidding!!

Dreadful. My mobile phone can produce better results than this!!

Your mobile is a 40MP (through v clever sampling) Nokia with Carl Zeiss optics , doesn't count. It is a camera with phone technology

It's 38MP No sampling used on that mode, that comes into play on the 8MP modes and below.

Pedantry aside though I've seen better pics on Panoramio taken with iPHones

[i]Bodies: 1x K-5IIs, 2x K-5, Sony TX-5, Nokia 808
Lenses: Pentax DA 10-17mm ED(IF) Fish Eye, Pentax DA 14mm f/2.8, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8, Pentax-A 28mm f/2.8, Sigma 30mm F1.4 EX DC, Pentax-A 50mm f/1.2, Pentax-A 50mm f/1.4, Pentax-FA 50mm f/1.4, Pentax-A 50mm f/1.7, Pentax DA* 50-135mm f/2.8, Sigma 135-400mm APO DG, and more ..
Flash: AF-540FGZ, Vivitar 283