Weak, not sure, but... It could be considerably better.

It is great to have the capability to shoot with a Pentax K3, any of a variety of WR lenses (although the apertures of some of those WR's could be considerably better), and then also stack (hate to do this one but) a hotshoe flash that is also WR - then being able to shoot in the rain. Try that with any Nikon minus the AW1 and see where that one ends up.

Still, the GN's on the Pentax labeled flash units, or some of the other features... Wishing that there would some day be a dedicated module and/or cord for an item such as Quantum

Have one from release date one. Ironically there is still not one single Pentax camera made since that does a better job at video. Or at least until the Pentax full-frame is released

Nikon wins every time when it comes to items such as:

1. Availability and selection of lenses
2. General durability of the higher end camera bodies; although see further items noted below
3. Aperture and optics of the lenses
4. Flash options

But sadly missing on most every Nikon product, except for the Nikon AW interchangeable system (quite limited)

1. No WR on the lenses; the camera bodies work perfectly in keeping out water, the lenses FAIL

[quote][compare this lens with the Sigma 150-500/quote]

Strangely the Pentax one is heavier, although the Pentax has the better aperture range, it is also not as good optically as the Sigma. It does have the WR though, but then again... Sigma has a variety of lenses where the WR is NOT available in the Pentax mont

...And the worst part about owning one of the limited colored skins for any of the Pentax bodies (I own three of such design) is that even if they are cracked or cosmetically damaged) that Pentax might keep a very few parts on hand somewhere but... Chances are that when any Pentax body is damaged even in the slightest (even gun metal or silver), Pentax will most likely NOT replace it with a similar skin

Perhaps when Pentax full-frame comes around ?? One can hope

On the flip side of the format spectrum...

If one can manage to afford some of the 512gb memory cards, then in most cases it would also be best to either: not use a platter hard disk drive (in the computer), or to have one over twice the size. Most computers made that still use platter hard drives would run into considerable issues if one elected to transfer any camera memory card that is about one half the capacity of the computer hard drive. The issues start occurring during defrag

Nice Z, especially with that glass

...or at least until someone figures out a way to match this Leica glass to any Pentax

I have two Pentax K3's and also single versions of each of the K5 variations. Yet in each and every possible shooting environment: studio, outdoor at any temperature, etc (even with any camera setting). I've found that the Pentax K3 by far has considerably better battery life.

But the Pentax K3 gets even better in worse weather, one of the best performing interchangeable lens cameras in bad weather, especially rain, or especially when it gets cold. I've literally tested it out in -40 celsius for extended periods, even had it completely buried in snow. It started to show some very minor signs, but still worked just fine.

Btw a marketing tool that has not yet been used (hope to see it as a marketable feature in full-frame sometime soon). That Pentax WR does even better than any of the flagship Nikons (even full-frame, with exception to the non flagship Nikon AW)

Which should get interesting, when it does happen . My answer to those complaints... There are presently on the market (sold as new) almost 50 PK full frame lenses. Add to that the hundredS that were formerly produced. Depending upon how a Pentax full-frame digital body catches market share, and also the sales of their existing full-frame lenses... There's easily the possibility of 75++ PK full-frame being on the market within one year.

But it could be worse... Take a look at a company such as Sony. Look at their camera body sales for full-frame, and then take a look at the lenses that are also available for those camera bodies in full-frame