No - does it work well with this type of shot?

I've just had my first go at capturing something splashing in water. I kind of worked it out as I went along but have read stuff before so had a bit of an idea. I want to put one in a little club competition called "water". I might try and get another with something more interesting like a strawberry. I just had a mini tomato and a grape available and not enough hands!! But for now, which one of these three do you think is the best image? (I'm thinking of removing the tomato from 3. although I was proud to catch it in mid air and thought it gave the whole pic a planetary look, I also though it detracts.
Ta, Dave







By the way, I used my old 50mm f1.7 SMC A lens and was pleased with that.(K30)

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Yes, in my opinion. Depends to some extent what programs you have at your disposal. I have a free version of Helicon Filter which I like because you can colour pick the noise profile and with a histogram raise that level whilst not touching the rest much. e.g - you could just remove the noise in a blue sky. Also has it separately for shadows and highlights, luminescence and colour. Others may be better but this is the best of the free ones I have tried.

I've never read any conclusive proof. I try and turn off the Sigma lens OS or the camera SR, try and turn off SR on a tripod but have often forgotten and have never seen any difference in the images. I have also struggled with the theory of when to have it on or not in the sense that hand held to on a tripod is not two things. There is a line from a lot of shake, e.g someone with shaky hands, through less so, maybe a monopod, an average tripod on a windy day - where do you draw the line with the theory?

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I couldn't find that either , other than in video. In fact it kept on about autofocus being fast!
In the summary at the top:-
CONS
"Limited autofocus during video recording. A little slow to start. Lacks built-in GPS or Wi-Fi.
BOTTOM LINE
The Pentax K-3 is the most refined K-mount SLR to date, offering fast autofocus and superb image quality. Its video autofocus implementation isn't the best, but it still manages to snag our Editors' Choice award."

Did you see the quoted price for the Nikon D7100 - it is a big mis-print and should be £830 body only! Again, sort of thing that doesn't help K3 making it look twice as expensive as competition!

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Me too. It's going to be so good for my static ish bird shots and probably a bit better on AF than my K30 so I will persevere. If I can stick with a K3 for three years who knows what might happen. Might even get the TC by then

I suspect this has drifted way outside most people's expectation of "K-3 20 page review out" thread

Yes I checked this. You have to decide whether the vauable item trade in has been dropped to account for this or not. Always will be less than you can sell it on here or the Bay for though anyway, so I would just use my cheapest camera

I think each one of those cameras could also be generically summarised as having good IQ, good high ISO performance, good resolution and weather sealing. I doubt any other manufacturer could cover all 4 attributes new or secondhand from £275 upwards.

Except those wanting full frame (sorry!) things are looking pretty rosy on the choice front now. I'm guessing the K3 is selling quite well judging by the number of K5 variants up for sale! Without being critical of any of the forerunners the following cameras all represent market leading features in their price range and can now be bought new or S/H to suit most people's pockets:- (Estimated, bodies only) e.g.)
K30 - £275 S/H
K5 - £325 S/H
K5ii - £460 S/H
K50 - £480 new
K5iis - £550 S/H
K5ii - £600 new
K5iis- £700 new
K3 - £999 new

That's 5 different cameras in a £400 price range then a £300 jump to the latest top of the range new. That's surely the best DSLR choice Pentax users have ever had.