My K3II threw a tantrum today and suddenly started displaying images with strong colour casts. It happened just as I passed the camera to the wife to take a snap of me and at first I thought she'd managed to press a few wrong buttons in the right order so to speak.

After checking the menu setting etc and a few more shots I came to the conclusion the camera thought it was in pixel shift mode (it wasn't) I continued the day using the K5 and had a further look at the K3II later on.

After another check of the menu I tried 4 test shots followed by a further 4, the results were the same a blue cast image followed by red then yellow then a slight green, on the off chance the LCD wasn't playing up I switched to live view, everything looked OK so I snapped a few frames, all the images were fine too. On switching back to viewfinder the camera started taking images normally ???

Has anyone experienced this with the K3II or even have any suggestions, please tell me I don't have to mess about returning the camera for repair.

Thanks, I would have asked when we were in the lakes but internet access was non existant, typically on the last day I got an excellent signal.

What focal lengths did you use?

I did realise there was one elsewhere from this thread Vic, wasn't going to bother as I thought it was just the KAF4 lens tweaks, but if it has a few other bits in there I may take a look. Having said that the K5 doesn't seem any different, my pictures are still crap

If your not in any hurry why not do some more research on your options then wait until November for Black Friday it could save you a fair bit of money.

Far better without the light pollution but still good examples of whats achievable.

I was going to try myself up in the lakes a few weeks back but some idiot forgot to take the manual and I didn't have a clue
Will have to do a bit of experimenting in the garden first I think.

Oddly enough I was looking today to see if there was anything for the K3II

Obviously didn't find anything, however I did find several updates I'd not done on the K5,
I was still on V1.01

PS: now thats what you call a Tune Up

Don't think that''s over important, When I took mine out someone already had the .com and were sat camping on it. I settled for the .co.uk and if I do a Google search using the .com it just returns mine

Can't help with the name as that's down to personal choice, however I agree with the other comments of keep it simple and short as possible, something that's easy to remember too.

Have you had a look to see if SRS have any used K5's etc ?

EDIT:

Just noticed cardiffgareth has a K5II with grip going for under £400

You deserve a medal, an not for the picture