Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

Sue uses one of these, and gets fantastic results:
https://www.srsmicrosystems.co.uk/dpt/lenses/pentax-da-18-270mm-f35-63-ed-sdm-le...

Vic is a long time Pentax User and a good friend to us here, so it is sad indeed to have to report, in his own words, that Vic has kicked the bucket. I have spoken to Vic on several occasions and he was a friendly, extremely knowledgable and helpful photographer.

Thank you to Vic's daughter-in-law for letting me know, condolences to all his family and may Vic RIP.

Best thing to do is make a report and the appropriate person will be able to get back to you and respond to your comments.

Hope that helps!

Brilliant! Thanks for the link!

It depends what you mean by mono/B&W, because there is a whole world of difference between say a super-fine-grain ultra-sharp contrasty image on Kodak Panatomic-X film (ISO 32) and a gritty, high contrast street photo on Kodak Tri-X (ISO 400) or any of the other hundreds of options/combinations of films and developers, all giving different results. It's not as easy as deciding to select Mono, that is just the start and monochrome photography is as big a subject as photography is.

The taps have it IMHO, that quality that would only be softened by colour.

The photographers have tended to miss the obvious, standing in front of great landscapes with beautiful deep blue skies that always work well in monochrome. But then photographing a greyish waterfall instead.

I really, really hope that a sample copy for review will find its way to us in due course. I have been planning to do a series of shots in JPEG monochrome using the K-1 in square format but the K-3 III Monochrome is a better idea.

That cover missed an educational trick that could be used to tell the children something useful. The paint posts could be red, blue and green.

Shooting in monochrome works best IMHO if we shoot in mono, and to emulate that I have always set the camera to BW JPEG capture. This gives a different minset when shooting the images, rather than deciding afterwards what to do. The K3 III Monochrome takes that one step further and is great for mono shooters. The Leica Monochrome cameras are very expensive, so a more reasonably priced offering could be a real winner. A great idea and one that PU members asked for a long time ago.

Meanwhile, why is the resolution higher? All sensors are monochrome and it's the overlay of the Bayer filter that generates the colour information. Each dot in the image, so to speak, comprises four pixels. Remove the filter and each pixel gives information, increasing the resolution.