What do people think will happen to K3 prices after Christmas? Are they likely to drop closer to the competition (if there is any ?
Or is it likely the PX offer will go and there will be a Ricoh cashback scheme. Any thoughts welcome.

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That's worrying. Does that mean I should take 4 shots of everything in the real world then!

I hope you post some more on here. All very interesting.

....but there was an enormous gaggle of Canon users at Ashness Bridge.

Hope they didn't jump off when they saw your K3

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Well I can substantiate with my own view that it is definitely the case. I don't know if shutter speed has an effect but for any given ISO setting I always see more noise in low light. It would seem logical and I fell I should be able to explain it from a physics standpoint but I can't at the moment!

I always forget to come on to this bit of the forum because it's off the bottom of the page! I thought some of the initial critique was put in a bit of a disparaging way, frankly, but that's the problem when you can't be face to face with the person. I can't really comment on the composition side because I don't know enough about what is expected from a sports shot.
However the hockey shots with the K3 do look a lot crisper and sharper to me, perhaps almost to the point of being unrealistic. I suspect that is to do with the lighting.
Dave

They are such great shots Jules. Almost brought tears to my eyes as we had several childhood holidays in the Northern Lakes in the days before it got crowded. Fond memories.

I also had my first experience of the aurora in Iceland in March. I was very pleased with my photos but I wished I could have had your backdrop. It was an organised trip by Reykjavic Tours but they decided the weather would be better near the airport and not in the National Park as planned. I was a tad disappointed but brilliant nevertheless as it was a bit of a bucket list thing for me.

Is that really true? I've always found my large crop of a small part of an image has always looked better than previous cameras I have had with lower mp counts.(For the same size resulting image). So are you saying that a 100% crop of a K5 image will be as good resolution and with the same amount of noise showing as the K3 cropped to 65%? I know the K30 gives better crops than my KM did.