Thanks for the update Alan, much appreciated and very useful.

I hope you don't mind me posting a couple of images on your thread; I've been testing the K-3 in the 'Natural' jpeg setting at 1600 and 3200 ISO on some of our own birds (not the wild variety like yours!) I think this is useful though as a lot of us shoot only in jpeg and this shows how strong the K-3 is when used in the jpeg mode. Neither image has had any processing, except for that which the camera applies to jpegs.

Noise levels are very low, colours, detail, sharpness etc. look good to me. Both are with the DA L 55-300 lens.

1600 ISO, 50% Crop



3200 ISO, no Crop



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David

Alan

These look pretty good to me but what is your opinion after using the K-3 for a week or two at ISO's between 1600 and 3200?

Do you think it is a benefit over and above the K-5 in terms of the resolution vs noise equation?

Is it more accurate at focussing than the K-5 was; I appreciate you may not have had issues with the K-5, but notwithstanding that how is the focussing stacking up?

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David

Thanks Jon and Stuey and Stan!

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David

Just done a quick test indoors in dim artificial light and the metering on the K-3 with M42 lenses appears to be just about perfect. No issues at all. Also, interestingly, the focus confirmation when manually focussing via the viewfinder is just about spot-on, much more accurate than I've seen with previous Pentax bodies. I tried it at F3.5 with a SMC Takumar 135mm F3.5 lens.

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David

I've only tried it with bayonet mount 'M' series lenses, I'll give it a go with the M42's tonight and post some observations.

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David

Very nice Stuey, the 'Tarn Hows' shots are the ones that catch my eye, they are very 'clean looking' with lovely colours and nice sharp details.

Are these with a different lens to the rest of the images as to my eye they look better?

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It was a rhetorical question Karl, I know what HDR is, I was just wondering whether you did because 'HDR Type' doesn't make any sense to me

BTW, I wasn't being obtuse, I was just trying to point out what Alan had already mentioned at the top of the post.

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David

What does 'HDR Type' mean Karl? It's either HDR or it's not HDR isn't it?

The ones above are single exposure images, not multiple exposures blended to HDR.

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David

PS apologies to Alan, I have not mentioned that I really like the second image.

These are not HDR images Karl, Alan did mention this above.

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David

An excellent set Jon, #3 in particular.

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David