One suggestion from a club competition judge was to throw a stone into the water to get some ripples circling out.

John K

I've ordered an O-RC1. Wonder if it will make a difference?
John K

As I said, I set it up the same as the K-5 which works fine - see the original post, thanks for the suggestion however. Mine isn't an O-RC1 but one of those cheap ebay jobbies. The odd thing is it did work one odd time. Puzzling.

Thanks. Looks like it's to force the purchase of one of those remotes.

Don't see why the ebay one should work fine with the K-5 but not the K-3.

John K

Makes it a bit pointless really.

John K

Thanks, that's interesting.

John K

Thanks for checking. Actually I did manage to get it to fire just the once, caught me by surprise! Certainly not repeatable or reliable.
Is this to force the purchase of an O-RC1 and does it work properly with one of those in any event?

John K

I've got several of the small remote controls which work the K-5 without problem, but they don't fire the K-3. Does it need a different one or have I a partially duff K-3?
If someone else has a remote control and a K-3 I'd appreciate if they might check how theirs performs before I get onto the supplier.

Before you suggest it, yes I set the remote control function same as the K-5!

Thanks,

John K

Oddly I took a photo of a Bittern on Saturday with my K-01 but it looks nothing like yours!

I feel the K3 focussing is much improved. Its faster and more reliable. On the K5 I too always used the back button for focussing but on the K3 I don't feel that there is such a need to do that.
On the K5 it sometimes seemed that having got an image in focus, pressing the shutter button again caused a rescan of focus and the shot would be missed. That doesn't seem to happen with the K3, it seems to check the focus first and only scan again if it isn't right. However some lenses such as the DFA100mm macro do occasionally still struggle to find focus first time, but others such as the DA17-70 focus in a heartbeat so need to use the back button.
It is possible to use the back button to focus and keep the shutter button focussing enabled and as it doesn't normally rescan the focus it works well both ways so less shots should be missed.

John K

It can indeed. Have to get a pair of contact AA filters fitted.