There was plenty of room, until they used up the space with an extra SD card slot...

And resizing. A lot of noise goes away if you do that.

I'd hope so too. Just trying to be optimistic for now

Movie mode and frame-rate are fairly easy to evaluate.

AF speed is going to be a lot harder to assess - stick a notoriously slow-to-focus lens on the front like the 60-250, and it's never going to ultra quick, since the motor will only drive the glass so fast.

Even with a lens you know well, it's hard to be objective without lab testing, and we'll be wading through a world of subjectivity when people write up their reviews.

At one extreme, there will be people with unrealistically high expectations and/or aren't the most skilled, who are disappointed and then complain bitterly, and at the other, there will be those for whom confirmation bias will kick in, and will love it no matter how good or bad it is.

Doubtless it will be better than the K-5II. How much better remains to be seen - I think I'll need to own one to have much of an idea.

welcome back!
I didnt spot you in any of the limbos I've been in[/quote]Thanks !!



It's been a very non-photographic kind of limbo. The sort where I've been completely peed off with trying to take any photographs of anything. Not enough skill (most of the problem), not enough time (also most of the problem), and ongoing disappointment with the K-5 AF speed for fast jets and fast birds (which is mostly what I like photographing the most).

I was thinking seriously about going to Nikon back in the summer, but I tried a D7000 and a friend's D700; didn't like the D7000 much, did like the D700 but what a beast, to say nothing of the incredible expense of going to a system like that. So I crawled back into my hole and then the K-3 rumours started.

It might be just the ticket. I await the reviews with great interest - I'm sure it will be very good indeed, it's just a question of whether it's good enough for the specific things I need. I'm trying desperately not to get my hopes up too high just yet. Suffice it to say that if it's what I'm hoping, I shall be looking for people's grannies to sell.

The pulled web page had links to other sections, and one of them did refer to that IIRC, with an image of the two slots. Also a dedicated video switch, but no mention of focusing during a take.

Lovely.

A lot of work to redo it, but I wonder if it would be worth going through the stills and cloning the aeroplanes out?

Aww, thanks

Nice to be remembered. It's been a while.

Having been in a photographic limbo for a long time, this might be enough to tempt me into taking pictures again.

I don't think anyone has said that, or even disagreed that it would be nice to have.
I wouldn't disagree with this either - but the point is that given all the things they ought to be doing to make themselves more competitive, enabling the aperture ring by re-introducing the stop-down coupling, is probably not high on the list.

Not as high as fast, responsive, predictive AF, for example, or any of plenty of other features that people have been asking for.

Possibly so, but...
... this is not true of the recent Pentax bodies. Certainly stop-down metering is pretty good on the K-5, and I believe this is true of all post K20D bodies.

Given that even with Ricoh at the helm, the R&D budget isn't going to be unlimited, it's much more important for them to be addressing the big problems than the little ones.

If Green-button metering was still as rubbish as it was in K10/20 days, then I'd strongly agree with you, but it really isn't.