Why is there so many K3 for sale
what will a K3 do that my K5 can't?
There's very little between them for low light photography in terms of noise and IQ.
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David
Andrew
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How many K3 owners really 'need' a K1 ...? In terms of pure performance and quality of output, I'll raise a good few eyebrows and say only a very small number around here. For many more it is just a further step along the onwards cycle of acquisition and upgrading to have the best ..... And if you have money for that then that's fine, and it helps Pentax and us all over time ...
Anyway. What could I know ....I still love my K7!!
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you could have a million pound camera and still take crap
or you could have a 50 quid one from down the market and take superb ones
to be honist its not the camera that counts its the person behind it that counts
you could have a million pound camera and still take crap
or you could have a 50 quid one from down the market and take superb ones
Andrew
"These places mean something and it's the job of a photographer to figure-out what the hell it is."
Robert Adams
"The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE."
Ernst Hass
My website: http://www.ephotozine.com/user/bwlchmawr-199050
http://s927.photobucket.com/home/ADC3440/index
https://www.flickr.com/photos/78898196@N05
to be honist its not the camera that counts its the person behind it that counts
you could have a million pound camera and still take crap
or you could have a 50 quid one from down the market and take superb ones
If what you really want are some of those features, if you want an AA filterless design, pixel-shift, and any number of recent improvements and advancements that we've seen creep in over the last 5 years (I'm thinking of this as starting from the K5II, which brought new things to the existing K7/K5 base design), then by far the best value way to get it all would be the K70.
But as I eluded to before, many will feel they need the K1, just because it IS the K1!
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Of course David, many disagree with you. The K-5 variants out perform the K-3 with regard to dynamic range and high ISO capabilities. For aurora shots and sunrise shots I'd use the K-5iis before the K-3.
I do think there's quite a difference though between the original K-5 and the K-3 when it comes to AF performance in low light. The K-3 is much better and also edges it over the K-5iis, at least with my particular bodies it does.
Regards
David
I want the K-1 and associated lenses not because it will make me a better photographer but because it will mean I've won a big wedge of cash on the lottery and can fly off to some of those exotic locations as seen in photography magazines and see what sort of hashI make of them
K1? I can't justify that even to myself !
I'm more than happy with my K3II and won't be upgrading anytime soon, unless I get a studio for portraits and product photography but then it'll be a 645 I'll be snapping up
PS, the K3II has pixel-shift also
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